---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 17
verse_count: 16
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 17, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 17

*Job appealeth to God— — His hope not in this life.*

**1** My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
**2** Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
**3** Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
**4** For thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
**5** He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
**6** He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
**7** Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
**8** Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
**9** The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
**10** But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; for I cannot find one wise man among you.
**11** My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
**12** They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
**13** If I wait, the grave is mine house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
**14** I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
**15** And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
**16** They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.