Job 17:13
If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.
Catholic Public Domain 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 have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.
14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I may continue? Or what is my goal, so that I may act patiently?
Job 10:22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.
Job 17:1My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will be left for me.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will be scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.
Lamentations 3:25TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that 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 →