Job 17:13

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

May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.

O tarry thou the LORD's leisure. Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.

{Tet} O how good is the LORD unto them that put their trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh after him?

My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death:

Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.

If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.

that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.

So I turned me to refrain my mind from all such travail, as I took under the Sun:

"I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years.