Job 17:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Job 17:13 Cross References

Isaiah 57:2

He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

Psalm 139:8

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD: Be strong, and let thine heart take courage; Yea, wait thou on the LORD.

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Job 17:1

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

Job 14:14

If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:

Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Job 17:12

They change the night into a day: The fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and the caper-berry shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Job 6:11

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