Job 17:1
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
Cross References
Job 7:6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
Psalms 88:3\88:2\Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
Isaiah 38:10I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:1
In this chapter, I. Job reflects upon the harsh censures which his friends had passed upon him, and looking upon himself as a dying man ( ver. 1 ), he appeals to God, and begs of him speedily to appear for him, and right him, because they had wronged him, and he knew not how to right himself, ver. 2-7 . But he hopes that, though it should be a surprise, it will be no stumbling-block, to good people, to see him thus abused, ver. 8, 9 . II. He reflects upon the vain hopes they had fed him with, that he should yet… Read the whole commentary →