Job 17:13 “If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,”

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

World English Bible

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

American Standard Version

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Geneva Bible 1599

Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.

Darby Translation

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:

Young's Literal Translation

If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

Bible in Basic English

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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Cross references

“If I wait”

Job 14:14 Psalm 27:14 Lamentations 3:25 Lamentations 3:26

Job 14:14 · BSB

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Psalm 27:14 · BSB

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

Lamentations 3:25 · BSB

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Lamentations 3:26 · BSB

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

“the grave”

Job 17:1 Job 30:23 Job 10:21 Job 10:22

Job 17:1 · BSB

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Job 30:23 · BSB

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 10:21 · BSB

before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 10:22 · BSB

to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

“I have made”

Psalm 139:8 Isaiah 57:2

Psalm 139:8 · BSB

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Isaiah 57:2 · BSB

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

Also

Job 3:13

Job 3:13 · BSB

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

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