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Job 17:1
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Job 17:1
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.
- Or, my spirit is spent.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 17:1
The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Subject to decay or physical ruin.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Quenched, dead, put out.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
Places of burial; or, as a verb, carves or engraves, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study10I 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.
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Open the full verse study3For 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.
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Open the full verse study16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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Open the full verse study13If 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.
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Open the full verse study17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
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Open the full verse study16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
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Open the full verse study11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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