Job 17:1
My breath is exhausted; My days are at an end; The grave is ready for me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2Are not revilers before me? And doth not my eye dwell upon their provocations?
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; They pass away without hope.
Job 17:11My days are at an end; My plans are broken off; Even the treasures of my heart.
Job 19:17My breath is become strange to my wife, And my prayers also to my own mother's sons.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of misery, And my life draweth near to the underworld.
Isaiah 38:10I said: “Now, in the quiet of my days, shall I go down to the gates of the under-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 →