Job 17:13

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

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

Wait thou for Yahweh, - Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!

Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;

My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.

Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:

For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.

If I ascend the heavens, there, thou art! If I spread out hades as my couch, behold thee!

He entereth into peace, Let them rest upon their couches, - Each one who went on a straight path.

Then resolved I, to give my heart over to despair, - concerning all the toil, wherein I had toiled, under the sun.

I, said - In the noontide of my days, I must enter the gates of hades, - I am deprived of the residue of ray years!