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 over to death, Job 17:11-16. My breath is corrupt, i.e. it stinks, as it doth in dying persons. Or, my spirit is corrupted, or spent, or lost, i.e. my vital spirits and natural powers are wasted; my soul is ready to leave the body. My days are extinct; the lamp of my life is wasted, and upon the point of going out, and that in a snuff. The graves, i.e. the grave; the plural number being put for the singular, as sepulchres, 2 Chronicles 21:20, cities, Judges 12:7, asses, Malachi 9:9, are put for one of each of these. Are ready for me; open their mouths as ready to receive me. The sense and scope of this verse is the same with the former.
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Job 17:1
1 My breatha is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.