Job 17:1
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth 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, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 19:17My breath is abhorred of my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my tribe.
Psalms 88:3(88-4) For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Isaiah 38:10I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue 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 →