Job 17:13
Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
14I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Cross References
Job 6:11What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?
Job 10:22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
Job 17:1My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, and the graue is readie for me.
Psalms 27:14Hope in the Lord: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and trust in the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule 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 →