Parallel Verses
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.
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;
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 changing the night into day, and the light into darkness. 13 Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. 14 I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,
Job 10:21-22
before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death:
Job 14:14
May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.
Job 17:1
My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.
Job 30:23
Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.
Psalm 27:14
O tarry thou the LORD's leisure. Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.
Psalm 139:8
If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Isaiah 57:2
that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.
Lamentations 3:25-26
{Tet} O how good is the LORD unto them that put their trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh after him?