Job 17:1

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 88:3-5 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
  • Isa 38:10-14 : 10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years." 11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. 13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. 14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

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