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Job 17:1 Cross-References
Explore 7 cross-references for Job 17:1 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 17 verse 1 to related passages throughout the Bible.
Job Continues: My Spirit Is Broken
“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. breath: or, spirit is spent”
Job 17:1 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 17:1
'My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.' Job's lament intensifies: 'breath' (רוּחִי, ruchi—spirit) is 'corrupt' (חֻבָּלָה, chubbalah—ruined, destroyed), 'days' (יָמַי, yamay) are 'extinct' (נִזְעֲכוּ, niz'akhu—extinguished, snuffed out), 'graves' (קְבָרִים, qevarim) await. The triple parallelism emphasizes complete deterioration—spirit, time, and body all failing. This is depression's language, describing the feeling of imminent death. Job isn't exaggerating but expressing genuine death-proximity. The Psalms model such lament (Psalm 88:3-5). The Reformed pastor...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 17:1
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“In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
“For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.”
“that I should wait? What is my end”
“and saw his sons”
“if I have spread my couch in the darkness”
“neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me”
“My breath is strange to my wife”