“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.
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