If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.
Job 17:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness, American Standard Version (1901) If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; Common English Bible If I hope for the underworld as my dwelling, lay out my bed in darkness, Catholic Public Domain Version If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I wait hell is my house: and I have made my bed in darkness. |
If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.
They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;