Job 17:1

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 17:1

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. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 17:1

JOB 17:1-2THE CONCLUSION OF JOB'S FIFTH DISCOURSEDeHoff's excellent summary of this chapter is: "Job's discourse here is broken, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble. He pictures himself as a despised man, a man of sorrows, full of misery, abandoned by his friends, and crying to God for mercy."[1] Rowley noted that the triple formation in verse 1 indicates that, "Job was speaking in great emotional strain."[2]Job 17:1-2JOB REFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AS... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 17:1

CHAP. XVII. 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 Christ 1645. Job 17:1. The graves are ready for me— They are preparing a grave for me. See Houbigant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 17:1

1. breath . . . corrupt—result of elephantiasis. But UMBREIT, "my strength (spirit) is spent." extinct—Life is compared to an expiring light. "The light of my day is extinguished." graves—plural, to heighten the force. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 17:1-16

2. Job’s second reply to Eliphaz chs. 16-17This response reflects Job’s increasing disinterest in the words of his accusers. He warned them and then proceeded to bewail his isolation. read more

John Dummelow

John 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.1. RV ’My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.’ The v. is connected with Job 16:22. 2. Job rejects the delusive hopes of restoration held out by the friends.3. RV ’Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; who is there that will strike hands with me?’... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 17:1

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 is frequently used for the singular in Hebrew, as, e.g., in the case of the word blood, which is commonly plural, though with us it is never so used. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 17:1-16

Job 17:11 Happy is the man, no matter what his lot may be otherwise, who sees some tolerable realization of the design he has set before him in his youth or in his earlier manhood. Many there are who, through no fault of theirs, know nothing but mischance and defeat. Either sudden calamity overturns in tumbling ruins all they had painfully toiled to build, and success for ever afterwards is irrecoverable; or, what is most frequent, each day brings its own special hindrance, in the shape of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

XIV."MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"Job 16:1-22; Job 17:1-16Job SPEAKSIF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying terms, then Job should have been comforted. But his friends had lost sight of their errand, and he had to recall them to it."I have heard many such things: Afflictive comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end?"He would have them consider that perpetual harping on one string is but a sober... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 17:1-16

CHAPTERS 16-17 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1-5 ) 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6-14 ) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15-22 ) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pity (Job 17:1-12 ) 5. Where is now my hope? (Job 17:13-16 ) Job 16:1-5 . How masterfully he meets their wrong accusations and how he brings forth his suffering afresh, yet always with that horrible nightmare, God is not for me, but against me! Such things Eliphaz spoke he had heard... read more

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