Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17:8 belongs to Job's reply in which he protests his innocence and longs for death while answering fresh accusations brought against him. More broadly, it stands within the exchanges between Job and his friends concerning the cause and purpose of human suffering. The assertions made by the friends in those exchanges could be generally true and yet still be misapplied to Job in his particular case. Suffering in itself does not prove that the sufferer is under God's displeasure.
Job 17:8 belongs to Job's reply in which he protests his innocence and longs for death while answering fresh accusations brought against him. More broadly, it stands within the exchanges between Job and his friends concerning the cause and purpose of human suffering. The assertions made by the friends in those exchanges could be generally true and yet still be misapplied to Job in his particular case. Suffering in itself does not prove that the sufferer is under God's displeasure.