Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
New American Standard Bible
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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,
A Conservative Version
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the 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,
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 Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness! 13 If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; 14 To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
Job 10:21-22
Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:
Job 14:14
If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -
Job 17:1
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
Job 30:23
For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.
Psalm 27:14
Wait thou for Yahweh, - Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend the heavens, there, thou art! If I spread out hades as my couch, behold thee!
Isaiah 57:2
He entereth into peace, Let them rest upon their couches, - Each one who went on a straight path.
Lamentations 3:25-26
Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;