Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the 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,
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.
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 make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.' 13 If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness, 14 [if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}
Job 10:21-22
Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.
Job 17:1
"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; [the] graveyard [is] for me.
Job 30:23
Indeed, I know [that] you will bring me to death and [to the] house of assembly for all [the] living.
Psalm 27:14
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend to heaven, there you [are], and if I make my bed [in] Sheol, look! [There] you [are].
Isaiah 57:2
he enters [into] peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him.
Lamentations 3:25-26
Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him.