Job 17:13
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- KJV
- If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- WEB
- If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
- ASV
- If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
- DARBY
- If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
- BLB
- If I await Sheol [as] my house, [if] in the darkness I spread out my bed,
- ÅB
- Når jeg håper på dødsriket som mitt hus, reder i mørket mitt leie,
- OTB
- Hvis jeg ser til Sheol som mitt hjem,
Jeg sprer min seng i mørket; - B1930
- Når jeg håper på dødsriket som mitt hus, reder i mørket mitt leie,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 10:21–22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Read in contextJob 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Read in contextJob 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Read in contextPsalms 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Read in contextJob 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Read in contextJob 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Read in contextPsalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Read in contextLamentations 3:25–26
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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