Job 17:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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  • Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave. 4 I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.
  • Isa 38:10-14 : 10 I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world. 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me. 13 I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'
  • Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 After this, Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations.

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