Job 17:13New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— If I waite, the graue [is] mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For if I remain, the grave{gr.Hades} is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. |
If
x518 (0518) Complementאִם'im{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
I wait,
6960 {6960} Primeקָוָהqavah{kaw-vaw'}
A primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), that is, collect; (figuratively) to expect.
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
the grave
7585 {7585} Primeשְׁאוֹלsh@'owl{sheh-ole'}
From H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), including its accessories and inmates.
[ is] mine house:
1004 {1004} Primeבַּיִתbayith{bah'-yith}
Probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.).
I have made
7502 {7502} Primeרָפַדraphad{raw-fad'}
A primitive root; to spread (a bed); by implication to refresh.
z8765 <8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2121
my bed
3326 {3326} Primeיָצוּעַyatsuwa`{yaw-tsoo'-ah}
Passive participle of H3331; spread, that is, a bed; (architecturally) an extension, that is, wing or lean to (a single story or collection).
in the darkness.
2822 {2822} Primeחֹשֶׁךְchoshek{kho-shek'}
From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness. |
Job 17:13
_ _ 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,” etc. (Job 17:15). Where then is my hope? [Umbreit]. The apodosis is at Job 17:15. |
Job 17:13
Wait — For deliverance, I should be disappointed; for I am upon the borders of the grave, I expect no rest but in the dark grave, for which therefore I prepare myself. I endeavour to make it easy, by keeping my conscience pure, by seeing Christ lying in this bed, (so turning it into a bed of spices) and by looking beyond it to the resurrection. |
Job 17:13
If I wait, (n) the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
(n) Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your discourse pretends. |
- If I wait:
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Lamentations 3:25-26 The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. ... [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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- the grave:
Job 17:1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
Job 10:21-22 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; ... A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
Job 30:23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
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- I have made:
Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].
Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
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