"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}" — Job 17:1

Job 17:1 · KJV

“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}”

— Job 17:1

{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}

Job 17 — Context

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}

{Are there} not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? {continue: Heb. lodge}

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who {is} he {that} will strike hands with me?

Cross References

Isaiah 38:10-14

I 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.

Psalms 88:3-5

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Job 17:13-14

If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 42:16

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, {even} four generations.

Job 6:11

What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls {which} I have made.