Job 17:13

World English Bible (2000)

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 I would have been at rest,
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh. By David.
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
  • Isa 57:2 : 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Lam 3:25-26 : 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

  • Job 17:14-16
    3 verses
    79%

    14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

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

    16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • Lam 3:6
    78%

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

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 10:18-22
    5 verses
    77%

    18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17 Because 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%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Isa 38:10
    74%

    10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

    4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

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

  • Job 7:13
    74%

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

  • Lam 3:2
    74%

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

  • Ps 88:6
    73%

    6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

  • Ps 139:8
    73%

    8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 30:26
    73%

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

  • Job 7:21
    73%

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 17:7
    73%

    7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

    13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

  • Ps 88:3
    72%

    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

  • Ps 6:6
    72%

    6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Job 38:19
    72%

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Ps 18:5
    72%

    5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

  • Job 3:21
    72%

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 30:23
    72%

    23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

  • Ps 116:3
    72%

    3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Job 16:16
    72%

    16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • Job 7:15
    71%

    15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

  • Job 30:17
    71%

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

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    71%

    6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.