Job 17:1
“My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2Mockers surround me. I see how bitterly they ridicule me.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
Job 17:11My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.
Job 19:17I am repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own brothers.
Psalms 88:3My life is full of troubles, and my death is approaching.
Isaiah 38:10I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on 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 →