The King James Version Bible

Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Cross References

  1. What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
  2. If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
  3. My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
  4. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
  5. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
  6. I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  7. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.