Job 17:13

Modern

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Traditional

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

Literal

If I await Sheol as my house, if in the darkness I spread out my bed,

Latin

Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.

Hebrew

English

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

for Sheol: People imagined the realm of dead people as a home (30:23; Psalm 49:11; Ecclesiastes 12:5).

Job no longer trusted his friends and thought he would die without hope (6:15–21; 13:4–5; 16:2–3; compare 12:2).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 10:21–22
…before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
Job 30:23
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Job 17:1
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Job 3:13
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
Isaiah 57:2
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
Lamentations 3:25–26
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Psalm 27:14
Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
Job 14:14
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.