Job 17:1

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 astonish upright men; yet the

righteous shall not be discouraged, but hold on his way, 7-9.

Asserts that there is not a wise man among his friends, and

that he has no expectation but of a speedy death, 10-16.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Job 17:1. My breath is corrupt] Rather, My spirit is oppressed, רוחי חבלה ruchi chubbalah: My days are extinct, and the sepulchral cells are ready for me. - PARKHURST. There is probably a reference here to cemeteries, where were several niches, in each of which a corpse was deposited. See on Job 17:16.

For חבלה chubbalah, corrupted or oppressed, some MSS. have חלה chalah, is made weak; and one has is worn down, consumed: this is agreeable to the Vulgate, Spiritus meus attenuebatur; "My spirit is exhausted."