Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
KJV
Spiritus meus attenuabitur ; dies mei breviabuntur : et solum mihi superest sepulchrum.
Vulgate
ὀλέκομαι πνεύματι φερόμενος, δέομαι δὲ ταφῆς καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω.
LXX
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.
ASV
רוּחִ֣/י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥/י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הוּ
hv
verb · 27×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
נִזְעָ֗כוּ
nz'kv
verb · 1×
קָ֑בֶר
qbr
noun · 67×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 38:10 — I 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.
- Isa 57:16 — For 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.
- Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 17:13 — If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 19:17 — My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- Job 42:16 — After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
- Ps 88:3 — For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- Ps 146:4 — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.