Job 17:13
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
14To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?
Job 10:22A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.
Job 17:1My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
Psalms 27:14Wait thou for Yahweh,—Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!
Ecclesiastes 12:5Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish,—for man is going to his age-abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets;
Lamentations 3:25Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will 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 →