Job 17:13

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.
• New International Version (NIV)If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
• English Standard Version (ESV)If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in 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 are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness. If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, 14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ 15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

Job 17:13 word by word

אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If I waitקָוָהqâvâh · to awaitH6960
• the graveשְׁאוֹלshe'ôl she'ôl · hell: SheolH7585
• mine houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• I have madeרָפַדrâphad · to spreadH7502
• my bedיָצוּעַyâtsûa‛ · bedH3326
• in the darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822

People and places in Job 17:13

• Sheol

Cross-references for Job 17:13

• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes.
• Psalms 27:14Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!
• Lamentations 3:25The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.
• Job 17:1“My spirit is broken, My days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
• Job 10:21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
• Job 30:23For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
• Psalms 139:8If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
• Isaiah 57:2He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

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

Topics related to Job 17:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Dead (People)
• Death
• Despondency
• Hell

In the dictionaries

• Darkness
• Extinct
• Hold
• Bed; Bedchamber; Bedstead

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