Parallel Verses
King James Version
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
New American Standard Bible
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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,
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
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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 change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Isaiah 57:2
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
Lamentations 3:25-26
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.