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"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
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A Body and Spirit Consumed
Commentators explain that Job's cry, "My spirit is consumed," describes a total collapse. Physically, his illness caused foul breath and failing life signs, as noted by multiple scholars. Spiritually and mentally, his spirit was crushed by grief and suffering. It's a picture of a person at the absolute end of their resources.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My breath is corrupt - Margin or “spirit is spent.” The idea is that his vital powers were nearly extinct; his breath fail…
19th Century
Anglican
My breath is corrupt. — As it is said to be in Elephantiasis. Some understand it, “My spirit is consumed.” (See margin.)<…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My breath is corrupt Through the force of his disease, which made it have an ill smell, so that it was strange and d…
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Job reflects on the harsh censures his friends had passed on him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending; it…
13th Century
Catholic
Job had previously shown the great number of his afflictions (Job 16:14), the humiliation of his mind (Job 16:16), his inno…
