Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
King James Version
In Context
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue 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 strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: 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 →