Job 17:1

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

“What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should endure?

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

“My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have made.

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

“My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

“What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should

endure?

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

“For I will not contend forever,

Nor will I always be angry;

For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have made.

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”