For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
Job 17:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me. Plus de versionsKing 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 have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.