Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
In Context
2There are none but mockers with mee, and mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.
Cross References
Job 7:6My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
Job 17:11My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
Job 19:17My breath was strange vnto my wife, though I prayed her for the childrens sake of mine owne body.
Psalms 88:3For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.
Isaiah 38:10I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
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 →