Job 17:1
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My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

breath is corrupt.

Job 19:17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

my days

Job 6:11 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Job 42:16 And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation,

Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

the graves

Job 17:13,14 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

Psalm 88:3-5 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

Isaiah 38:10-14 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. . . .

Context
Job Prepares for Death
1My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.2I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.…
Cross References
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Psalm 88:4
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Lexicon
My spirit
רוּחִ֣י (rū·ḥî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

is broken;
חֻ֭בָּלָה (ḥub·bā·lāh)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2254: To wind tightly, to bind, a pledge, to pervert, destroy, to writhe in pain

my days
יָמַ֥י (yā·may)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

are extinguished;
נִזְעָ֗כוּ (niz·‘ā·ḵū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2193: To extinguish

the grave
קְבָרִ֥ים (qə·ḇā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6913: A grave, sepulcher

awaits me.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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

I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.

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

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

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

"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves are for me.
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