Job 17:13

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Mas, se eu aguardo j a sepultura por minha casa; se nas trevas estendo a minha cama;

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Se eu esperar, a sepultura ser a minha casa; nas trevas estenderei a minha cama.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Se eu olhar a sepultura como a minha casa; se nas trevas estender a minha cama;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If I wait: Job 14:14, Psalms 27:14, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26

the grave: Job 17:1, Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Job 30:23

I have made: Psalms 139:8, Isaiah 57:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:19 - and Job 14:10 - man Job 33:22 - his soul Job 36:20 - Desire Psalms 49:14 - they Ecclesiastes 3:20 - go Ecclesiastes 12:5 - because Isaiah 14:11 - the worm

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I wait, the grave [is] mine house,.... Not that Job put an "if" upon, or made a doubt of waiting upon God in private or public; or of waiting for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of prayer, performance of promises, and deliverance out of trouble; and especially of waiting his appointed time till his change came, and hoping and expecting eternal life and happiness; all which he determined to do, and did, see Job 13:15; but he says this with respect to the advice of his friends, which should it be taken, the issue of would be no other than what he here suggests; they had intimated, that if he repented and reformed, he might hope for and expect a peaceable tabernacle, and a prosperous habitation, a line house, and affluent circumstances, Job 5:24. Now, says he, should I listen to this, and endeavour to cherish some hope and expectation of small things, and put myself in a waiting posture for them, alas! how soon would it be over, for what other house can I rationally expect but the grave? and this is what I have upon; I think of no other house than that, which is man's long home, the house appointed for all living; there I shall dwell, and make my abode until the morning of the resurrection, and I look for no other; and if I should, I am well assured! should be disappointed:

I have made my bed in the darkness: in the dark grave, where the light of the body is extinct, and where the light of the sun comes not; in houses there are various apartments, some for work and business, as is the shop; others for eating and drinking, as the dining room; and others for sleep and rest, as the bedchamber; now in the house of the grave there is no mention of any but the latter; for there is no work and device in the grave, nor eating and drinking there; but it is a bed where the weary saint lies down and rests upon from all his toil and labour, until he awakes at the resurrection: now Job had settled the matter with himself, he had laid it out in his own mind, and taken a kind of pleasure in the prospect of it; that he had got a house to move into, when he was dislodged from the earthly house of his tabernacle, and where he had made himself, in his own thought, an easy bed, on which he should lay his weary limbs, and take his sleep and rest, until the heavens be no more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I wait - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם 'ı̂m) is often used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my home. I have made up my mind to it, and have no other expectation.”

The grave - Hebrew שׁאול sh^e'ôl. It may mean here either the grave, or the region of departed spirits, to which he expected soon to descend.

Mine house - My home; my permanent abode.

I have made my bed - I am certain of making my bed there. I shall soon lie down there.

In the darkness - In the grave, or in the dark world to which it leads; see the notes at Job 10:21-22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:13. The grave is mine house — Let my life be long or short, the grave at last will be my home. I expect soon to lie down in darkness - there is my end: I cannot reasonably hope for any thing else.