Job 17:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13O 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!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Job 17:14-16
    3 verses
    79%

    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?

    16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] 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 [is] short because of 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 darkness, 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 set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yea, 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? Oh that 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.

    20[Are] 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 the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For 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.

  • Isa 38:10
    74%

    10I 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 7:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3So am I made to possess months of vanity, 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 regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of 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 brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

  • Ps 88:6
    73%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

  • Ps 139:8
    73%

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

    26When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: 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 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, 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%

    12Mine 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.

    13I 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.

  • Ps 88:3
    72%

    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

  • Ps 6:6
    72%

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

  • Job 38:19
    72%

    19Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? 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 see the dawning of the day:

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Ps 18:5
    72%

    5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • Job 3:21
    72%

    21Which 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 sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16My face is foul 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 my life.

  • Job 30:17
    71%

    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    71%

    6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;