Job 17:1 My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

◄ Job 17:1 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

English Standard Version
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

New American Standard Bible
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.

International Standard Version
"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.

Darby Bible 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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:1-9 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. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the hard usage this faithful servant of God met with, they should be made bold to proceed and persevere therein. Those who keep their eye upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religion as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may meet with.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 17

Job 17:1-16. Job's Answer Continued.

1. 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.