Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
American Standard 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, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
Job 10:22The land dark as midnight, [The land] 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 Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah. Psalm 28 [A Psalm] of David.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, 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 goeth to his everlasting 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 →