Job 17:1

Job 17:1

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Job Prays for Relief

1 “My spirit is broken,
My days are extinguished,
^aThe grave is ready for me.

2 Are not mockers with me?
And does not my eye¹ dwell on their ^aprovocation?

3 “Now put down a pledge for me with Yourself.
Who is he who ^awill shake hands with me?

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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My breath is corrupt - Rather, My spirit is oppressed, ruchi chubbalah : My days are extinct, and the sepulchral cells are ready for me - Parkhurst. There is probably a reference here to cemeteries, where were several niches, in Each of which a corpse was deposited. See on Job 17:16 (note). For chubbalah , corrupted or oppressed, some MSS. have chalah , is made weak; and one has is worn down, consumed: this is agreeable to the Vulgate, Spiritus meus attenuebatur; "My spirit is exhausted."

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