“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
"My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me." Job opens chapter 17 in anguished confession of approaching death. His spirit is already dead; his days are already ended. The grave is not a future possibility but an immediate reality, already prepared. The verse expresses that Job has already begun to die.
Church Fathers on Job 17:1
My spirit shall be wasted to thinness. ‘My spirit is wasted to thinness,’ by the fear of judgment; in that the minds of the Elect, the more they feel themselves to be approaching the final Judgment, tremble so much the more fearfully in the searching of their own selves; and if they ever find in themselves any carnal thoughts, they consume them by the fervour of their penance; nor do they suffer their thoughts to expand with carnal delight, in that they pass sentence and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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