Job 17:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Common English Bible

¹³ If I hope for the underworld as my dwelling, lay out my bed in darkness,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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

¹³ If I wait hell is my house: and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 17:13 Cross References

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 17:1

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me.

Job 17:12

They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Job 6:11

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

Job 7:9

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

Psalm 139:8

If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Ecclesiastes 12:5

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;

Isaiah 57:2

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace and rest on their couches.