Job 17:1

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

Complete Jewish Bible:

"My spirit is broken, my days are quenched, I am marked for the grave.

Berean Standard Bible:

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

American Standard Version:

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

My breath{H7307} is corrupt{H2254}, my days{H3117} are extinct{H2193}, the graves{H6913} are ready for me.

Cross-References (KJV):

Isaiah 38:10

  • 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.

Isaiah 38:14

  • Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Psalms 88:3

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

Psalms 88:5

  • Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Job 6:11

  • What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Job 17:13

  • If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 17:14

  • I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.

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Commentary for Job 17:1

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H7307
    There are 348 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: רוּחַ
    Transliteration: rûwach
    Pronunciation: roo'-akh
    Description: from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
  2. Strong's Number: H2254
    There are 25 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: חָבַל
    Transliteration: châbal
    Pronunciation: khaw-bal'
    Description: a primitive root; to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition); [idiom] at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, [idiom] very, withhold.
  3. Strong's Number: H3117
    There are 1931 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יוֹם
    Transliteration: yôwm
    Pronunciation: yome
    Description: from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb); age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.
  4. Strong's Number: H2193
    There are 1 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: זָעַךְ
    Transliteration: zâʻak
    Pronunciation: zaw-ak'
    Description: a primitive root; to extinguish; be extinct.
  5. Strong's Number: H6913
    There are 62 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: קֶבֶר
    Transliteration: qeber
    Pronunciation: keh'-ber
    Description: or (feminine) קִבְרָה; from קָבַר; a sepulchre; burying place, grave, sepulchre.