Job 17:1

Job 17:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
• New International Version (NIV)My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

Context of Job 17:1

I am very weak and I will soon die. Then my friends will bury me in my grave. 2All around me, people are laughing at me. I have to watch them as they insult me. 3God, please help me to become free again. Nobody else will pay the price to do that for me.

Job 17:1 word by word

רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• My breathרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• is corruptחָבַלchâbal · to destroyH2254
• my daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• are extinctזָעַךְzâ‛ak · to extinguishH2193
• the gravesקֶ֫בֶרqeber qibrâh · graveH6913

Cross-references for Job 17:1

• Job 19:17My wife moves away from the smell of my breath. My brothers stay away from me.
• Job 6:11I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life.
• Job 42:16Job lived for 140 years after this. He was still alive when his grandchildren and their grandchildren were born.
• Isaiah 57:16I will not always speak against my people. I will not be angry with them for ever. I do not want them to lose hope completely. I myself gave life to them.
• Job 17:13The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.
• Psalms 88:3There is a lot of trouble in my life. I feel that I am near to death.
• Isaiah 38:10I thought that I might die in the middle of my life. I thought that I would go into the deep hole of death, before I had lived all the years of my life.

Commentaries on Job 17:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1My breath is corrupt - Rather, My spirit is oppressed, חבלה רוחי 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; (note). For חבלה chubbalah, corrupted or oppressed, some MSS. have חלה chalah, is made weak; and one has גבלה is worn down, consumed: this is agreeable to the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1My 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Job appeals from man to God. (1-9) His hope is not in life, but in death. (10-16) Verses 1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, and from friends…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1My spirit is broken: This can mean a truly sorry attitude (Psalm 51:17). But it usually means a very sad "spirit" (Proverbs 18:14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-161. breath ... corrupt--result of elephantiasis. But Umbreit, "my strength (spirit) is spent." extinct--Life is compared to an expiring light. "The light of my day is extinguished." graves--plural, to heighten the force.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 17:1

• Life

In the dictionaries

• Extinct
• Hold
• Consume
• Holy Spirit

Commentaries on Job 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings