Job 17:1
What does Job 17:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 17:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.
KJV
King James Version · 1611My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
- Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
- Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
- Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
- Job 42:16
And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
- Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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