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CHAPTER XVII
_Job complains of the injustice of his friends, and compares his_
_present state of want and wo with his former honour and_
_affluence_, 1-6.
_God's dealings with him will ever astoni...
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MY BREATH IS CORRUPT - Margin or “spirit is spent.” The idea is,
that his vital powers were nearly extinct; his breath failed; his
power was weakened, and he was ready to die. This is connected with
t...
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CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ
_ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_
2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6)
3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15)
4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine
vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must
now die.
JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
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BREATH. spirit. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.
IS. has become.
CORRUPT. consumed.
EXTINCT. Hebrew. _Za'ak._ Occurs only here.
THE GRAVES. The Septuagint reads as in translation below....
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Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that
He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a
pledge that He will make his innocence appear
In Job 16:12 Jo...
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What Job sought with tears was that God would cause his innocence to
be acknowledged by God, and made manifest against men. Now he adds
words in support of his prayer, or gives the reason for it. He s...
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_my breath_ Rather as margin, MY SPIRIT IS SPENT, i. e. consumed. The
"spirit" is the principle of life.
_the graves are ready for me_ lit. _graves are mine_; the meaning
being: the grave is my porti...
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_JOB APPEALS FROM MEN TO GOD: THE UNMERCIFUL DEALING OF MEN WITH THE
AFFLICTED MAY ASTONISH, BUT NOT DISCOURAGE THE RIGHTEOUS. JOB
PROFESSES THAT HIS HOPE IS NOT IN LIFE, BUT IN DEATH._
_Before Chri...
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4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to
the grave. (Job 17:1-16)
TEXT 17:1-16
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is _ready_ for me.
2 Surely there are...
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_MY BREATH IS CORRUPT, MY DAYS ARE EXTINCT, THE GRAVES ARE READY FOR
ME._
Breath ... corrupt - result of elephantiasis. But (Umbreit) 'my
strength (spirit) is spent' х_ CHUBAALAAH_ (H2254)] - destroy...
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17:1 corrupt, (e-4) Or 'my spirit is undone.'...
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JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the
future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises
of restoration in the pre...
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RV 'My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is _ready_
for me.' The v. is connected with Job 16:22....
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XVII.
(1) MY BREATH IS CORRUPT. — As it is said to be in Elephantiasis.
Some understand it, “My spirit is consumed.” (See margin.)
THE GRAVES. — _i.e., the grave is mine_ — _my portion._ The plural...
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רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ
קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃...
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XIV.
"MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"
Job 16:1; Job 17:1
Job SPEAKS
IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the
doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
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“THE BARS OF SHEOL”
Job 17:1
Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1
He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were
delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
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Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of
whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was
no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
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_Spirit. Hebrew, "breath is corrupt," (Haydock) or spent. I cannot
breathe without the greatest difficulty. (Calmet) --- Only.
Septuagint, "But I want the grave, and do not obtain it." (Haydock)_...
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(1) В¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are
ready for me. (2) Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye
continue in their provocation? (3) Lay down now, put me in a sur...
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CONTENTS
Job continueth his discourse through this Chapter. He speaks of the
grave as an asylum: still holding fast his integrity, he looks up to
God with an hope, that the sufferings he was exercise...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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MY BREATH IS CORRUPT,.... Through the force of his disease, which made
it have an ill smell, so that it was strange and disagreeable to his
wife, Job 19:17; passing through his lungs, or other parts,...
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for
me.
Ver. 1. _My breath is corrupt_] Which argueth that my inwards are
imposthumated and rotten, so that I cannot in likelihood ha...
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_My breath is corrupt_ Is offensive to those around me, through my
disease. But, as the word חבלה, _chubbalah_, here rendered
corrupt, may signify _bound, straitened_, or distressed with _pain_,
as a...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
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My breath is corrupt, or, "my spirit is violently disturbed"; his
power of life was fast waning as his bodily organism was succumbing to
the illness racking him. MY DAYS ARE EXTINCT, THE GRAVES ARE RE...
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Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at
the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in
contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
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MY BREATH IS CORRUPT:
Or, my spirit is spent...
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Job is depressed and feels that his life is coming to an end, his days
were about gone and the grave was ready for him....
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1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon
him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our
time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
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JOB CHAPTER 17 His miserable life; false friends; their punishment,
JOB 17:1. His contempt, and sorrow, JOB 17:6,7. The righteous should
be established, JOB 17:8,9; but he was given over to death,...
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Job 17:1 spirit H7307 broken H2254 (H8795) days H3117 extinguished
H2193 (H8738) grave H6913
breath is corrupt - or, spirit is spent,...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death.
CHARACTERS: Job.
CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there
is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
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Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est
spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the
sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1).
“My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is
destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 17:1
The general character of this chapter has been considered in the
introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's
complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their
provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
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Isaiah 38:10; Isaiah 57:16; Job 17:13; Job 17:14; Job 19:17;...
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The graves — He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to which he
must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are ready for me
also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us: it is a be...