Job 17:13

American Standard Version (1901)

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, And let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
  • Isa 57:2 : 2 He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.
  • Lam 3:25-26 : 25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Job 17:14-16
    3 verses
    79%

    14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

    16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Lam 3:6
    78%

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

    12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

  • Job 10:18-22
    5 verses
    77%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Isa 38:10
    74%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

  • Job 7:13
    74%

    13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

  • Lam 3:2
    74%

    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Ps 88:6
    73%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

  • Ps 139:8
    73%

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Job 7:21
    73%

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Job 17:7
    73%

    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Ps 88:3
    72%

    3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

  • Ps 6:6
    72%

    6I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • Job 38:19
    72%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Ps 18:5
    72%

    5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

  • Job 3:21
    72%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 30:23
    72%

    23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

  • Ps 116:3
    72%

    3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Job 7:15
    71%

    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

  • Job 30:17
    71%

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    71%

    6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.