For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 17:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, The graves are ready for me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MY SPIRIT is broken, my days are spent (snuffed out); the grave is ready for me. American Standard Version (1901) My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me. Common English Bible My spirit is broken, my days extinguished, the grave, mine. Catholic Public Domain Version My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will left for me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My spirit shall be wasted; my days shall be shortened: and only the grave remaineth for me. |
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the droughts of my heart.
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of my mother's womb.
And after this Job lived an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, at I should be patient?
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.