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Job 17:1 KJV
Job · chapter 17 · verse 1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.Job 17:1 · King James Version
Job 17:1 in context
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- corruptchâbalto wind tightlyH2254 →
- extinctzâʻakto extinguishH2193 →
- breathrûwachwindH7307 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads: - I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9