Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out 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,
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.
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
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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 These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.' 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'
Phrases
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
Job 10:21-22
before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
Job 17:1
My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
Job 30:23
I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
Psalm 27:14
Rely on the Lord! Be strong and confident! Rely on the Lord!
Psalm 139:8
If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.
Isaiah 57:2
Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
Lamentations 3:25-26
(Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.