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JOB CHAPTER 17
His miserable life; false friends; their punishment, Job_17:1-5. His contempt, and sorrow, Job_17:6,7. The righteous should be established, Job_17:8,9; but he was given over to death, Job_17:11-16.
My breath is corrupt, i.e. it stinks, as it doth in dying persons. Or, my spirit is corrupted, or spent, or lost, i.e. my vital spirits and natural powers are wasted; my soul is ready to leave the body.
My days are extinct; the lamp of my life is wasted, and upon the point of going out, and that in a snuff.
The graves, i.e. the grave; the plural number being put for the singular, as sepulchres, 2Ch_21:20, cities, Jud_12:7, asses, Zec_9:9, are put for one of each of these.
Are ready for me; open their mouths as ready to receive me. The sense and scope of this verse is the same with the former.