“ My breatha is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. ”
My breath is corrupt - Margin or “spirit is spent.” The idea is, that his vital powers were nearly extinct; his breath failed; his power was weakened, and he was ready to die. This is connected w...
Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...
breath . spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. is . has become. corrupt . consumed. extinct. Hebrew. Za'ak. Occurs only here. the graves. The Septuagint reads as in translation below.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. My breath is corrupt - Rather, My spirit is oppressed, רוחי חבלה ruchi chubbalah: My days are extinct, and the sepulchral cel...
Job appeals from men to God: the unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. Job professes that his hope is not in life, but in death. Before C...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Breath ... corrupt - result of elephantiasis. But (Umbreit) 'my strength (spirit) is spent' х chubaalaah ( H2254 )]...
RV 'My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.' The v. is connected with Job 16:22 .
XVII. (1) My breath is corrupt. — As it is said to be in Elephantiasis. Some understand it, “My spirit is consumed.” (See margin.) The graves. — i.e., the grave is mine — my portion. The...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...
CONTENTS Job continueth his discourse through this Chapter. He speaks of the grave as an asylum: still holding fast his integrity, he looks up to God with an hope, that the sufferings he was exercis...
My breath is corrupt ,.... Through the force of his disease, which made it have an ill smell, so that it was strange and disagreeable to his wife, Job 19:17 ; passing through his lungs, or other pa...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me. Ver. 1. My breath is corrupt ] Which argueth that my inwards are imposthumated and rotten, so that I cannot in likelihood...
My breath is corrupt Is offensive to those around me, through my disease. But, as the word חבלה, chubbalah , here rendered corrupt, may signify bound, straitened , or distressed with pain , as a...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520. 1 My breath...
JOB CHAPTER 17 His miserable life; false friends; their punishment, Job 17:1-5 . His contempt, and sorrow, Job 17:6,7 . The righteous should be established, Job 17:8,9 ; but he was given o...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...
Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
My breath is corrupt, or, "my spirit is violently disturbed"; his power of life was fast waning as his bodily organism was succumbing to the illness racking him. My days are extinct, the graves are...
Isaiah 38:10-14 ; Isaiah 57:16 ; Job 17:13 ; Job 17:14 ; Job 19:17 ; Job 42:16 ; Job 6:11 ; Psalms 88:3-5
The graves — He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to which he must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are ready for me also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us: it is a...