Job 17:1

In 11 translations

BSB

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

KJV

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.breath…: or, spirit is spent

WEB

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

ASV

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

LSV

“My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.

YLT

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Ὀλέκομαι πνεύματι φερόμενος, δέομαι δὲ ταφῆς, καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω.

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• Isaiah 38:10–14I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer…
• Psalms 88:3–5For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave,…
• Job 17:13–14If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
• 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.
• Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
• Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
• Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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