Job 17:1
My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave is ready for me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2Yet truly those that mock are with me, and on their offendings must my eye rest.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days hasten away more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end in the absence of hope.
Job 17:11My days are past, my resolves are broken off, [even the thoughts]—the possessions of my heart.
Job 19:17My breath is become nauseous to my wife, and my caressing, to the children of my own body.
Psalms 88:3(88:4) For my soul is sated with troubles; and my life draweth nigh unto the nether world.
Isaiah 38:10I had said, In the midst of my days, must I enter 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 →