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