Job 17:1 - Exposition

My breath is corrupt ; or, my spirit is oppressed. But the physical meaning is the more probable one. A fetid breath is one of the surest signs of approaching dissolution. My days are extinct ; or, cut off . The verb used does not occur elsewhere. The graves are ready for me ; or, the chambers of the grave are mine already. The plural form is best explained by regarding it as referring to the niches commonly cut in a sepulchral chamber to receive the bodies of the departed.