Job 17:13

Modern English Version

If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:2

He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Psalm 139:8

If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait on the Lord.

Job 30:23

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

Job 17:1

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my service I will wait, until my relief comes.

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down and would be at peace; I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,

Job 7:9

As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

Job 17:12

They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they fear heights, even the terrors along the road; the almond tree blossoms white, and the grasshopper is burdened down, and the aphrodisiac caper-berry plant fails, because a person is going to his eternal home, and the mourners are throughout the streets;

Job 6:11

“What strength do I have, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?