Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 after darkness I hope for light again.
14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?
Job 10:22A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
Job 17:1My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened, and only the grave remaineth for me.
Psalms 27:14Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.
Lamentations 3:25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in 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 →