Job 17:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, 22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Rely on the LORD! Be strong and confident! Rely on the LORD!
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.
  • Isa 57:2 : 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
  • Lam 3:25-26 : 25 ט(Tet) The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him. 26 It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the LORD.

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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Job 17:14-16
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    14If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

    16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

  • Job 17:11-12
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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Job 10:18-22
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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • Job 7:3-4
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    3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

    4If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

  • Job 7:13
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    13If I say,“My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,”

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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Ps 88:6
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    6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

  • Ps 139:8
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    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

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    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

    13I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

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    3For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

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    6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

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    72%

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

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    5The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

  • Job 3:21
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    21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 30:23
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    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

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    3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 16:16
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    16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

  • Job 7:15
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    15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

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    17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

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    6The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.