Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
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,
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,
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
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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 have transformed night into day "The light,' they say, "is about to become dark.' 13 "If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, 14 if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,
Job 10:21-22
before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
Job 14:14
If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
Job 17:1
"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!
Job 30:23
I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
Psalm 27:14
Wait on the LORD. Be courageous, and he will strengthen your heart. Wait on the LORD! Davidic
Psalm 139:8
If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are!
Isaiah 57:2
Then he enters into peace, and they'll rest on his couches, each one living righteously.
Lamentations 3:25-26
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the person who searches for him.