Job 17:1

American Standard Version (1901)

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

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  • Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
  • Isa 38:10-14 : 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
  • Isa 57:16 : 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 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
  • Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.

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    15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

    16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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    13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

    14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

    15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

    16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • 20 Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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    3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • 2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

  • 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

    4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • 16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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    5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

    7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • 4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

  • 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • 4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

  • 19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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    7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.