Job 17:13
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Darby Translation
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 imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?
Job 10:22A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
Psalms 27:14Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.
Ecclesiastes 12:5they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
Lamentations 3:25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh 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 →