Job 17:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.”
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BSBPD
““My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 17:1 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 17:11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- Psalms 88:5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
- Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
- Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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