Verse 13
Job 17:13
Noah Webster Bible
13
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אִם אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑/י בַּ֝/חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽ/י
English Translation
If I hope for Sheol as my house, or darkness, I have spread out my couch.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 17 Context
1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
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3
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
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4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them .
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5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
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6
He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
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7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.
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8
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrit...
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9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronge...
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10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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13
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
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16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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