Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

King James Version

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Holman Bible

If I await Sheol as my home,
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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I wait
קוה 
Qavah 
Usage: 49

the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

is mine house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

רפד 
Raphad 
Usage: 3

my bed
יצוּע 
Yatsuwa` 
Usage: 8

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

12 You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness. 13 “If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
14 If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister!

Cross References

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be asleep and at rest.

Job 10:21-22

before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 27:14

Hope (wait) (expect) (trust) in Jehovah and be strong. Let your heart be courageous. Yes, hope in Jehovah.

Psalm 139:8

If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in the grave, behold, you are there.

Isaiah 57:2

He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

Lamentations 3:25-26

Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him.

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