Job 17:13
For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
14I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?
Job 10:22to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.
Job 17:1I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain it not.
Ecclesiastes 12:5and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:
Lamentations 3:25Teth. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek 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 →