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Job 17:13 KJV
Job · chapter 17 · verse 13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.Job 17:13 · King James Version
Job 17:13 in context
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- graveshᵉʼôwlHades or the world of the dead , including its accessories and inmatesH7585 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- waitqâvâhto bind togetherH6960 →
- maderâphadto spreadH7502 →
- bedyâtsûwaʻspreadH3326 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-16