My spirit is broken, ¹  my days have faded out, ²  the grave ³  awaits me.

biblegateway Job 17:1

"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. A graveyard awaits me.

"My spirit is broken. My days have been snuffed out. The cemetery is waiting for me.

biblegateway Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

bibleoremus Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

My mind is distraught, my days are numbered, and the grave awaits me.

biblegateway Job 17:1

"My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

biblegateway Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, ¹  my days have faded out, ²  the grave ³  awaits me.

¹ tn The verb חָבַל (khaval, “to act badly”) in the Piel means “to ruin.” The Pual translation with “my spirit” as the subject means “broken” in the sense of finished (not in the sense of humbled as in Ps 51).

² tn The verb זָעַךְ (za’aq, equivalent of Aramaic דָעַק [da’aq]) means “to be extinguished.” It only occurs here in the Hebrew.

³ tn The plural “graves” could be simply an intensification, a plural of extension (see GKC 397 §124.c), or a reference to the graveyard. Coverdale had: “I am harde at deathes dore.” The Hebrew expression simply reads “graves for me.” It probably means that graves await him.