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

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Job 17:1 word by word

רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• 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 breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
• Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
• Job 42:16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
• Isaiah 57:16For 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.
• Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
• 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.

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