Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
In Context
12They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.
14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is mine end, at I should be patient?
Job 10:22A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Psalms 27:14Wait on the LORD: be strong, and let thine heart take courage; yea, wait thou on the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and the caper-berry shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul 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 →