Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.
14if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?
Job 10:22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
Psalms 27:14Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go
Lamentations 3:25LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:11-16
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →