Job 17:13
If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed.
Literal 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 appoint night for day, || Light [is] near because of darkness.
14To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.
Cross References
Job 6:11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?
Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, || Death-shade—and no order, || And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
Job 17:1“My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.
Psalms 27:14Look to YHWH—be strong, || And He strengthens your heart, || Indeed, look to YHWH!
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, || And of the low places in the way, || And the almond-tree is despised, || And the grasshopper has become a burden, || And want is increased, || For man is going to his perpetual home, || And the mourners have gone around through the street.
Lamentations 3:25YHWH [is] good to those waiting for 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 →