Job 17:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 17:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Lamentations 3:25-26
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. …
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalms 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Dead (people)Death Despair Despondency Discouragement Dying Gehenna

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-16)

Job’s friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): “ Return, and come now, be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind; for I cannot find one wise man among you, that knows how to explain the difficulties of God’s providence or how to apply th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Rather, “if I wait for this grave (Sheol, or the unseen world) as my house, and make my bed in the darkness (Job 17:14), and say to corruption,” rather, “to the pit” or “grave,” &c. (Job 17:15). Where then is my hope? [Umbreit]. The apodosis is at Job 17:15.