Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Job 13:17 falls within the extended debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions, spanning Job 4–31. It is part of Job's reply to their constant accusations, stated and implied, charging him with sin and declaring that his sufferings are because of sin. In that setting it belongs to the treatment of overruling providence and the problems of sin and suffering, in which God is disciplining Job by bringing him through the fire of affliction, while their charges show how humanity misjudges its fellows.
For study it sits within the span of Job 8 through Job 27 that stops in the middle of Job's last reply after his friends have ceased troubling him. It is taken alongside Job 11 and Job 12 as the morning portion for June 28. The counsel is to read farther than the daily order when helpful in order to bring the accusations and responses together.
Job 13:17 falls within the extended debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions, spanning Job 4–31. It is part of Job's reply to their constant accusations, stated and implied, charging him with sin and declaring that his sufferings are because of sin. In that setting it belongs to the treatment of overruling providence and the problems of sin and suffering, in which God is disciplining Job by bringing him through the fire of affliction, while their charges show how humanity misjudges its fellows.
For study it sits within the span of Job 8 through Job 27 that stops in the middle of Job's last reply after his friends have ceased troubling him. It is taken alongside Job 11 and Job 12 as the morning portion for June 28. The counsel is to read farther than the daily order when helpful in order to bring the accusations and responses together.