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 repulsive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

My days

Job 6:11

“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
Job 42:16
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
Isaiah 57:16

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.

The graves

Job 17:13

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Psalm 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”