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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 unto the grave.
 4I am counted 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, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. (Job 19:17)
my days.
Job 6:11• 11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? (Job 6:11)
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Job 42:16• 16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even 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 should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. (Isa. 57:16)
the graves.
Job 17:13‑14• 13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
 14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art 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 unto the grave.
 4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
 5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. (Psa. 88:3‑5)
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Isa. 38:10‑14• 10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
 11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
 13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
 14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O 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."