Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, New Living Translation What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness? English Standard Version If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, Berean Standard Bible If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, King James Bible If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. New King James Version If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, New American Standard Bible “If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; NASB 1995 “If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; NASB 1977 “If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; Legacy Standard Bible If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; Amplified Bible “But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home, If I make my bed in the darkness, Christian Standard Bible If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness, Holman Christian Standard Bible If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness, American Standard Version If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; Aramaic Bible in Plain English If I shall lie in ambush, my house is in Sheol, and I deserve my bed in darkness Brenton Septuagint Translation For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. Contemporary English Version I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed. Douay-Rheims Bible If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. English Revised Version If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness; GOD'S WORD® Translation If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness, Good News Translation My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark. International Standard Version "If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, JPS Tanakh 1917 If I look for the nether-world as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; Literal Standard Version If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, | In darkness I have spread out my bed. Majority Standard Bible If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, New American Bible If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol, and spreading my couch in darkness, NET Bible If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, New Revised Standard Version If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness, New Heart English Bible If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, Webster's Bible Translation If I wait, the grave is my 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, Young's Literal Translation If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Prepares for Death…12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. 13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’… Cross References Job 3:13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest Job 7:9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. Job 17:12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. Ecclesiastes 12:5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels--for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets. Treasury of Scripture If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. If I wait Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Lamentations 3:25,26 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him… the grave. Job 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Job 10:21,22 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; … Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. I have made Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Jump to Previous Bed Couch Dark Darkness Grave Home Hope House Nether-World Sheol Spread Underworld Wait WaitingJump to Next Bed Couch Dark Darkness Grave Home Hope House Nether-World Sheol Spread Underworld Wait WaitingJob 17 1. Job appeals from men to God6. The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, 9. but not discourage the righteous 11. His hope is not in life, but in death Verse 13. - If I wait, the grave is mine house; rather, surely I look for the grave (Sheol) as my house; i.e. I expect no return of prosperity, no renewal of life in a sumptuous mansion, no recovery of the state and dignity from which I have fallen - I look only for Sheol as my future abode and resting-place -there, in Sheol, I have made my bed in the darkness; i.e. I regard myself as already there, lying on my narrow bed in the darkness, at rest after my afflictions. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not I look אֲ֭קַוֶּה (’ă·qaw·weh) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6960: To bind together, collect, to expect for Sheol שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl) Noun - common singular Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death) as my home, בֵּיתִ֑י (bê·ṯî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1004: A house if I spread out רִפַּ֥דְתִּי (rip·paḏ·tî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7502: To spread, to refresh my bed יְצוּעָֽי׃ (yə·ṣū·‘āy) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 3326: Spread, a bed, an extension, wing, lean-to in darkness, בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ (ba·ḥō·šeḵ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness Links Job 17:13 NIVJob 17:13 NLT Job 17:13 ESV Job 17:13 NASB Job 17:13 KJV Job 17:13 BibleApps.com Job 17:13 Biblia Paralela Job 17:13 Chinese Bible Job 17:13 French Bible Job 17:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my (Jb) |
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