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 dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Rely on the Lord! Be strong and confident! Rely on the Lord!

(Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.'