Job 17:1
MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
¶ My ‖breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, my spirit is spent.
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- Isaiah 38:10–14Rank 1 from verse 1
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.
11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14Like 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.
10I saide in the cutting off of my dayes; I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
11I said, I shal not see the LORD, euen the LORD in the land of the liuing: I shal behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12‖Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, that as a Lyon so will hee breake all my bones: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14‖Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine eyes faile with looking vpward: O LORD, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.
- Psalms 88:3–5Rank 2 from verse 1
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
3For my soule is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh vnto the graue.
4I am counted with them that go downe into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.
5‖Free among the dead, like the slaine that lie in the graue, whom thou remembrest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
- Isaiah 57:16Rank 3 from verse 1
- Job 17:13–14Rank 4 from verse 1
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
13If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
14I haue †said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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Job 17:1
Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references
1. Morally spoiled, defiled, perverted, false, or turned from integrity. 2. Physically decayed, damaged, or unsound. 3. As a verb, to spoil, debase, pervert, or cause decay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Ended or destroyed; no longer continuing.
Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616
Plural of grave: places of burial or tombs.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references
Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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1MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
1¶ My ‖breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
Selected passage2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
2 Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye †continue in their prouocation?