Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 17:1 — My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

breath is corrupt   or, spirit is spent. Job 19:17
my days   Job 6:11; Job 42:16; Isa 57:16
the graves   Job 17:13,14; Psa 88:3-5; Isa 38:10-14
Correlating Passages
breath is corrupt
Job 19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
my days
Job 6:11 What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
Isa 57:16 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.
the graves
Job 17:13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
Psa 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psa 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
Psa 88:5 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.
Isa 38:10 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.
Isa 38:11 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.
Isa 38:12 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.
Isa 38:13 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.
Isa 38:14 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 17:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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