| Geneva Study Bible My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Wesley's Notes 17:1 The graves - He speaks of the sepulchres of his fathers, to which he must be gathered. The graves where they are laid, are ready for me also. Whatever is unready, the grave is ready for us: it is a bed soon made. And if the grave be ready for us, it concerns us, to be ready for the grave. King James Translators' Notes breath...: or, spirit is spent Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary CHAPTER 17 Job 17:1-16. Job's Answer Continued. 1. breath . corrupt-result of elephantiasis. But Umbreit, "my strength (spirit) is spent." extinct-Life is compared to an expiring light. "The light of my day is extinguished." graves-plural, to heighten the force. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 17:1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, and from friends. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the hard usage this faithful servant of God met with, they should be made bold to proceed and persevere therein. Those who keep their eye upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religion as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may meet with. | 
