Job 17:13
If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Young's Literal Translation
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 because of darkness.
14To corruption I have called: — 'Thou [art] my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' — to the worm.
Cross References
Job 6:11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine 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 17:1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.
Psalms 27:14Look unto Jehovah — be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!
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 is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.
Lamentations 3:25Good [is] Jehovah to those waiting 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 →