Job 14:13

What does Job 14:13 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 14:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, —

Context

v.12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

v.13This passage

v.14If a man die, shall he liveagain? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 1:7

    And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within his own authority.

  • Mark 13:32

    But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

  • Acts 17:31

    inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

  • Isaiah 57:1

    The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

  • Job 3:17

    There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

  • Genesis 8:1

    And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

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