New International Version
Job 17:13
13If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
Job 17:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
- New King James Version (NKJV)If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
- New Living Translation (NLT)What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?
Context of Job 17:13
11My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart 12turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, 14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’ 15where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
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אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 17:13
- Job 14:14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
- Psalms 27:14Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
- Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
- Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
- Job 10:21before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
- Job 30:23I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 139:8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
- Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
Commentaries on Job 17:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13The grave is mine house - Let my life be long or short, the grave at last will be my home. I expect soon to lie down in darkness - there is my end: I cannot reasonably hope for any thing else.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13If I wait - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם 'ı̂m ) is often used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my home. I have made up my mind to it, and have no other expectation.” The grave - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl It may mean here either the grave, or the region of departed spirits, to which he expected soon to descend. Mine house - My home; my permanent abode. I have…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13for Sheol: People imagined the realm of dead people as a home (30:23; Psalm 49:11; Ecclesiastes 12:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Rather, "if I wait for this grave (Sheol, or the unseen world) as my house, and make my bed in the darkness (Job 17:14), and say to corruption," rather, "to the pit" or "grave," &c. (Job 17:15). Where then is my hope? [Umbreit]. The apodosis is at Job 17:15.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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