Job 17:1
My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.
Young's Literal Translation
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 in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 17:11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
Job 19:17My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my [mother's] womb.
Psalms 88:3For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.
Isaiah 38:10'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine 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 →