KJV King James Version
If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
WEB World English Bible
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
ASV American Standard Version
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If I wait—Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Surrounding context — Job 17
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
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.
13 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?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
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Cross-references
Job 10:21-22Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,Psalm 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Psalm 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.Job 30:23For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.Lamentations 3:25-26The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.Isaiah 57:2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
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