Job 17:1 — King James Version← Study notes
“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
Job 17:1 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 17:16 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
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…
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