My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
breath is corrupt. or, spirit is spent
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's …
my days
Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that …
Job 42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, …
Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: …
the graves
Job 17:13,14 If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness…
Psalm 88:3-5 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave…
Isaiah 38:10-14 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of …
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators …
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
Isaiah 19:14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and …
Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord …
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, …
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of …
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He that
Job 32:21,22 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give …
Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …
Proverbs 20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle …
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor …
the eyes
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the …
1 Kings 11:12 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's …
Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching …
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
a by-word
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
1 Kings 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; …
Psalm 44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
aforetime. or, before them. as a tabret
Genesis 31:27 Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not …
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in …
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
hold on
Psalm 84:7,11 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears …
Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Isaiah 35:8-10 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called …
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready …
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been …
clean
Genesis 20:5 Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, …
Psalm 24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up …
Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
Psalm 73:13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
Isaiah 1:15,16 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Mark 7:2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that …
be stronger and stronger. Heb. add strength
Isaiah 40:29-31 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases …
2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength …
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
do ye return
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
for I
Job 17:4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall …
Job 15:9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, …
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of …
1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among …
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My days
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9:25,26 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good…
Isaiah 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of …
purposes
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart devises his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Romans 1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed …
2 Corinthians 1:15-17 And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you …
James 4:13-15 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …
thoughts. Heb. possessions
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I wait
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time …
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your …
Lamentations 3:25,26 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him…
the grave. See on
Job 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job 10:21,22 Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness …
Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed …
I have made
Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, …
Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one …
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
said. Heb. cried, or, called. corruption
Job 21:32,33 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb…
Psalm 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your …
Psalm 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Acts 2:27-31 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer …
Acts 13:34-37 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more …
1 Corinthians 15:42,53,54 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; …
to the worm
Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh …
Job 24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he …
Isaiah 14:11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: …
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
