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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 17:1-16

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 present life.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:1 corrupt, (e-4) Or 'my spirit is undone.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job thought that he was dying. His friends were with him. But they did not speak kind words to him. Instead, they accused him of many evil deeds. JOB PRAYS V3 God, promise to be fair to me! Nobody...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MY BREATH IS CORRUPT: Or, my spirit is spent...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 17:1 spirit H7307 broken H2254 (H8795) days H3117 extinguished H2193 (H8738) grave H6913 breath is corrupt - or, spirit is spent,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 38:10; Isaiah 57:16; Job 17:13; Job 17:14; Job 19:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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