Job 17:1 ““My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.”

Job 17:1

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.

Darby Translation

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

Young's Literal Translation

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.

Bible in Basic English

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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Cross references

“breath is corrupt”

Job 19:17

Job 19:17 · BSB

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

“my days”

Job 6:11 Job 42:16 Isaiah 57:16

Job 6:11 · BSB

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

Job 42:16 · BSB

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Isaiah 57:16 · BSB

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me— the breath of life I have made.

“the graves”

Isaiah 38:10–14 Psalm 88:3–5 Job 17:13 Job 17:14

Isaiah 38:10–14 · BSB

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Psalm 88:3–5 · BSB

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Job 17:13 · BSB

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14 · BSB

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

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