Job 17:13
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain still 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 the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
- Job 17:1 : 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are 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 on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
- Isa 57:2 : 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
- Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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- Job 14:13-142 verses79%
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
- Job 17:14-163 verses79%
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- Job 17:11-122 verses79%
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses78%
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses77%
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
- Job 10:18-225 verses77%
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
- Job 24:16-172 verses74%
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
- Job 7:3-42 verses74%
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When 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.
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4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
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8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;