Job 17:1
“My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2If not—mockeries [are] with me. And my eye lodges in their provocations.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 17:11My days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my heart!
Job 19:17My spirit is strange to my wife, || And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb.
Psalms 88:3For my soul has been full of evils, || And my life has come to Sheol.
Isaiah 38:10“I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant 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 →