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Job 17:1
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My spirit is broken.
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
My spirit is broken; the days of my life are almost gone. The grave is waiting for me.
My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me.
"My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished;The grave is ready for me.
My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
"My spirit is broken, my days are quenched, I am marked for the grave.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
My spirit is broken; I am ready to give up. My life is almost gone; the grave is waiting for me.
MY spirit is weary, my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me,
The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.
"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.
My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; graves are for me.
My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes dore.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore.
I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Mi spirit schal be maad feble; my daies schulen be maad schort, and oneli the sepulcre is left to me.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, graves are [ready] for me.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
"My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
"My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me.
"My spirit is broken. My days are gone. The grave is ready for me.
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves [are] for me.
"My spirit is broken, my days used up, my grave dug and waiting. See how these mockers close in on me? How long do I have to put up with their insolence?
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
breath is corrupt: or, spirit is spent, Job 19:17
my days: Job 6:11, Job 42:16, Isaiah 57:16
the graves: Job 17:13, Job 17:14, Psalms 88:3-5, Isaiah 38:10-14
Reciprocal: Job 33:22 - his soul Psalms 88:4 - counted Psalms 88:15 - afflicted Psalms 146:4 - His breath Isaiah 38:12 - he will cut
Cross-References
and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,
The Lord said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.
but the Lord appeared to Abram and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abram then built an altar there for the Lord .
One hot summer afternoon Abraham was sitting by the entrance to his tent near the sacred trees of Mamre, when the Lord appeared to him.
I am the Lord ! There is nothing too difficult for me. I'll come back next year at the time I promised, and Sarah will already have a son."
I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.
Then he gave Joseph his blessing and said: My grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac worshiped the Lord God. He has been with me all my life,
But when I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I came as God All-Powerful and did not use my name.
The Lord answered, "I can do anything! Watch and you'll see my words come true."
The Lord your God is more powerful than all other gods and lords, and his tremendous power is to be feared. His decisions are always fair, and you cannot bribe him to change his mind.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My breath is corrupt,.... Through the force of his disease, which made it have an ill smell, so that it was strange and disagreeable to his wife, Job 19:17; passing through his lungs, or other parts, which were affected with some disorder, or as frequently is the case of dying persons, and so Job thought himself to be. The word n used has the signification of pain, even of the pains of a woman in travail; and so may signify, that Job drew his breath with great pain, as people troubled with an asthma do, or dying persons in the hiccups, or just fetching their last breath; or "my spirit" o, as it may be rendered, that is, his vital spirits which were exhausted and spent, there were scarce any left in him; or "my mind" p, or soul, which was overwhelmed with grief, and so disturbed, that he was not himself, but in a manner distracted with the terrors of God, and the severity of his hand upon him:
my days are extinct; here Job corrects himself; he had spoken of a few years before, but it is as if he should say now, why do I talk of a few years, when I have but a few days to live, and even those are as good as gone? meaning not only his days of prosperity, which were at an entire end, as he thought, but the days of his natural life; the lamp of life was almost burnt out, the oil was spent, the wick was just extinguished, it was like the snuff of a candle going out:
the graves [are ready] for me; the place of his fathers' sepulchres, the burial place of his ancestors, where many graves were; or he may have respect to various things into which the dead are put, as into so many graves; as besides their being rolled up in linen, as was the way of the eastern countries, there was the coffin, a sort of a grave, and which sometimes was made of stone; and then the place dug in the earth, more properly called the grave, and often over that a sepulchral monument was erected; so that there was grave upon grave. Job does not seem to have any respect to the usage of kings, and great personages, preparing stately monuments for themselves while living, such as the pyramids of Egypt, built by and for their kings, as is supposed; for the words "are ready" are not in the text, only supplied, though they are also by the Targum; they are very short and significant in the original text, "the graves for me", or they are mine; the grave is my property, my house, where I expect shortly to be, and there to abide and dwell until the resurrection, and which was desirable to him; "a grave to me"; that is all that I desire, or can expect; here he wished to be, as he did not doubt he quickly should be; and it is as if he should say, I am ready for that, and so Jarchi paraphrases it; and happy is the man that is ready for the grave, for death, and eternity, for the coming of his Lord, having the grace of God wrought in him, and the righteousness of his living Redeemer on him, which was Job's case; such an one shall go into the nuptial chamber at once, and be received into everlasting habitations.
n Pineda. o רוחי "spiritus meus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, &c. p "Anima mea", Piscator, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My breath is corrupt - Margin or “spirit is spent.” The idea is, that his vital powers were nearly extinct; his breath failed; his power was weakened, and he was ready to die. This is connected with the previous chapter, and should not have been separated from it. There was no necessity of making a new chapter here, and we have one of those unfortunate breaks in the middle of a paragraph, and almost of a sentence, which are too common in the Scriptures.
The graves are ready for me - The Hebrew is plural, but why so used I know not. The Vulgate is singular - sepulchrum. The Septuagint renders it, “I pray for a tomb (singular, ταφῆς taphēs), but I cannot obtain it.” Possibly the meaning is, “I am about to be united “to the graves,” or “to tombs.”” Schultens remarks that the plural form is common in Arabic poetry, as well as in poetry in general.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVII
Job complains of the injustice of his friends, and compares his
present state of want and wo with his former honour and
affluence, 1-6.
God's dealings with him will ever astonish upright men; yet the
righteous shall not be discouraged, but hold on his way, 7-9.
Asserts that there is not a wise man among his friends, and
that he has no expectation but of a speedy death, 10-16.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVII
Verse Job 17:1. My breath is corrupt — Rather, My spirit is oppressed, רוחי חבלה ruchi chubbalah: My days are extinct, and the sepulchral cells are ready for me. - PARKHURST. There is probably a reference here to cemeteries, where were several niches, in each of which a corpse was deposited. See on Job 17:16.
For חבלה chubbalah, corrupted or oppressed, some MSS. have חלה chalah, is made weak; and one has is worn down, consumed: this is agreeable to the Vulgate, Spiritus meus attenuebatur; "My spirit is exhausted."
