--- title: "Job 17 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Job 17 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provoca" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/job/17" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/17)[ Commentary](/study/job/17)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/17) Audio 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves *are ready* for me.* 2 *Are there* not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?* 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who *is* he *that* will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt *them*. 5 He that speaketh flattery to *his* friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.* 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members *are* as a shadow.* 8 Upright *men* shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.* 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find *one* wise *man* among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, *even* the thoughts of my heart.* 12 They change the night into day: the light *is* short because of darkness.* 13 If I wait, the grave *is* mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou *art* my father: to the worm, *Thou art* my mother, and my sister.* 15 And where *is* now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when *our* rest together *is* in the dust. [Job 16](/study/job/16) [Job 18](/study/job/18) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Job 17:1](/kjv/job/17/1) My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me. Ver. 1. **My breath is corrupt** ] Which argueth that my inwards are imposthumated and rotten, so that I cannot in likelihood have long to live; Oh therefore that I might have a day of hearing and clearing before I die! But Job should have remembered that there will be at the last day a resurrection of names as well as of bodies; which he that believeth maketh not haste. Howsoever, it was not amiss for Job, so grievously diseased, and now well in years, to have thought himself to be dying and to discourse about these three particulars, that speak of him as a dying man. In the old the palm tree is full of blooms, the map of age is figured on his forehead, the calendars of death appear in the furrows of his face, the mourners are ready to go about the streets, and he is going to his long home, according to that elegant description,[Ecc 12:1-7](/kjv/-ecc/12/1-7) He should therefore say with Varro, *Annus octogesimus me admonet, ut farcinas colligam, &c.,* It is high time for me to pack up, and to be gone out of this life; or rather, as Simeon, Lord, now let thou thy servant depart in peace, &c. **** **My days are extinct** ] As a candle, [Proverbs 13:9](/kjv/proverbs/13/9) . Or cut off, as a web, so some read it. The original word is found only here. **** **The graves are ready for me** ] Heb. The graves for me; *q.d.* I bid adieu to all things else, and as the grave gapes for me, so do I gape for the grave, Eιθε μοι τουτο γενοιτο . I would it were even so, as Basil said, when Valens, the Arian emperor, threatened him with death. But why doth Job speak of graves in the plural? Surely, to show that he was besieged with many deaths; or else, because the dead are buried (as it were) first in their grave clothes, and then in the coffin, and then in the bier or hearse, and lastly in the sepulchre, which every place did, as it were, proffer to Job, and threaten him with death, in regard to his many pains and pressures, by the scoffs and taunts of his friends. 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