Job 17:13
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
14If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Cross References
Job 6:11Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Job 10:22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
Psalms 27:14Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 12:5And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for 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 →