Job 17:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,”
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BSBPD
“If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If I wait--Sheol <FI>is<Fi> my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 17:13 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
- Psalms 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- Isaiah 57:2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
- Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
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