Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
Isaiah 38:10I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
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 →