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Job 17

Job 17:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My πbreath
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
is corrupt
chabal (Hebrew #2254)
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
KJV usage: X at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lab to (take a) pledge. spoil, travail, X very, withhold.
Pronounce: khaw-bal'
Origin: a primitive root
, my days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
are extinct
za`ak (Hebrew #2193)
to extinguish
KJV usage: be extinct.
Pronounce: zaw-ak'
Origin: a primitive root
, the graves
qeber, (Hebrew #6913)
from 6912; a sepulchre
KJV usage: burying place, grave, sepulchre.
Pronounce: keh'-ber
Origin: or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}
l are ready for me.
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or, spirit is spent.
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Psa. 88:3‑4• 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: (Psa. 88:3‑4)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Job appeals from men to God.
6-10:  The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous.
11-16:  His hope is not in life, but in death.
breath is corrupt.
or, spirit is spent.
Job 19:17• 17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb. (Job 19:17)
my days.
Job 6:11• 11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience? (Job 6:11)
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Job 42:16• 16And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. (Job 42:16)
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Isa. 57:16• 16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made. (Isa. 57:16)
the graves.
Job 17:13‑14• 13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
 14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! (Job 17:13‑14)
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Psa. 88:3‑5• 3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
 5Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand. (Psa. 88:3‑5)
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Isa. 38:10‑14• 10I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
 11I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum:--from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
 13I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
 14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. (Isa. 38:10‑14)
• The experience of bitter trial (ch. 17:1-12). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• {v.1-2} He is marked for death, his very breath declares the corruption for which the grave yawns; and “friends” stand by and mock! (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My breath is corrupte, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "my spirit is undone."