Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Breath is corrupt

Bible References

Breath is corrupt

Job 19:17
My breath is offensive to my wife,
and my own family finds me repulsive.

My days

Job 6:11
What strength do I have that I should continue to hope?
What is my future, that I should be patient?
Job 42:16
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.

The graves

Job 17:13
If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,
Psalm 88:3
For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.
Isaiah 38:10
I said: In the prime of my life
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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