Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

New American Standard Bible

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

If I await Sheol as my home,
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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I wait
קוה 
Qavah 
Usage: 49

the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

is mine house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

רפד 
Raphad 
Usage: 3

my bed
יצוּע 
Yatsuwa` 
Usage: 8

References

Easton

Fausets

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.

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;

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