Job Prepares for Death
Job 17:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- KJV
- If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- WEB
- If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
- LSV
- If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed.
- YLT
- If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
- DBY
- If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
- DRC
- If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
- GNV
- Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
- JPS
- If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
- LXXE
- For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐὰν γὰρ ὑπομείνω, ᾅδης μου ὁ οἶκος, ἐν δὲ γνοφῳ ἔστρωταί μου ἡ στρωμνή.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 10:21–22before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
- Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
- Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
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