Job 17:13

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If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow. 22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord.
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.
  • Isa 57:2 : 2 They find peace; they rest in their beds—those who walk in uprightness.
  • Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • Job 17:14-16
    3 verses
    79%

    14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,

    15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

    16 Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

    12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Lam 3:6
    78%

    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12 even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Job 10:18-22
    5 verses
    77%

    18 Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19 If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

    21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Isa 38:10
    74%

    10 I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

    4 When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Job 7:13
    74%

    13 When I think my bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,

  • Lam 3:2
    74%

    2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • Ps 88:6
    73%

    6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.

  • Ps 139:8
    73%

    8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

  • Job 7:21
    73%

    21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 17:7
    73%

    7 My eyes have grown dim from grief, and all my limbs are like a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.

    13 I have calmed myself until morning; like a lion, He breaks all my bones. Day and night You bring me to an end.

  • Ps 88:3
    72%

    3 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

  • Ps 6:6
    72%

    6 For in death, no one remembers You; in the grave, who can give You thanks?

  • Job 38:19
    72%

    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Ps 18:5
    72%

    5 The cords of death surrounded me, and the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

  • Job 3:21
    72%

    21 To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.

  • Job 30:23
    72%

    23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

  • Ps 116:3
    72%

    3 The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Job 7:15
    71%

    15 I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.

  • Job 30:17
    71%

    17 At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    71%

    6 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.