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 · 2000If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
KJV
King James Version · 1611If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If I wait--Sheol <FI>is<Fi> my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Context
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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