Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
New American Standard Bible
I
King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Holman Bible
spread out my bed in darkness,
International Standard Version
"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
American Standard Version
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Amplified
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Bible in Basic English
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Darby Translation
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.
King James 2000
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,
Modern King James verseion
If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.
NET Bible
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
New Heart English Bible
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
The Emphasized Bible
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
Webster
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
World English Bible
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Youngs Literal Translation
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Interlinear
Bayith
References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You
12 They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness. 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, 14 if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Job 10:21-22
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Job 14:14
If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
Job 17:1
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 27:14
Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou are there.
Isaiah 57:2
He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
Lamentations 3:25-26
LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.