Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 17:1

1. MY ‖ Breath is corrupt , my days are extinct , the Graves are ready for me .

i. e. It stinks, as it doth in dying persons. Or, my Spirit is corrupted, or spent, or lost, i. e. My vital Spirits, and natural Powers are wasted; my Soul is ready to leave the Body.

The lamp of my Life is wasted, and upon the point of going out, and that in a Snuff.

i. e. The Grave; the plural number being put for the singular, as Sepulchres, 2 Chron. 21. 20. Cities, Judg. 12. 7. Asses, Zech. 9. 9. are put for one of each of these.

Open their mouths as ready to receive me. The sense and scope of this Verse is the same with the former.

Marginal references: Or, my Spirit is spent.