Job 17:13

What does Job 17:13 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 17:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

If I wait--Sheol <FI>is<Fi> my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:

Context

v.12They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.

v.13This passage

v.14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;

Cross references

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

  • Job 10:21

    Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Isaiah 57:2

    He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

  • Job 3:13

    For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

  • Lamentations 3:25

    Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

  • Job 17:1

    My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.

  • Psalms 139:8

    If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

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