Job 17:13-16

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“If I look for ^(A)Sheol as my home,
I ^(a)make my bed in the darkness;

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If I call to the ^(B)pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the ^(C)worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

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Where now is ^(D)my hope?
And who regards my hope?

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“^(b)Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ^(E)go down into the dust?”

a. Job 17:13: ['Lit ', spread out]

b. Job 17:16: ['So the Gr; Heb possibly ', Let my, ' limbs ', sink down to Sheol, since there is rest in the dust for all]

A. Job 17:13: Job 3:13

B. Job 17:14: Job 7:5; Job 13:28; Job 30:30

C. Job 17:14: Job 21:26; Job 25:6

D. Job 17:15: Job 7:6

E. Job 17:16: Job 3:17; Job 21:33