Job 17:13
What meaning of the job 17:13 in the Bible?
What does Job 17:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
What does Job 17:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
Verse Job 17:13. _THE GRAVE_ IS _MINE HOUSE_] Let my life be long or short, the grave at last will be my _home_. I expect soon to lie down in darkness - there is my end: I cannot reasonably hope for a...
IF I WAIT - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם _'ı̂m_) is often used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. Compare Job 17:16....
Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave. Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...
IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE— _I have no hope; the grave is my house: I have spread my couch in darkness._...
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE: I HAVE MADE MY BED IN THE DARKNESS._ Rather, if I wait for the grave (scheol or the unseen world) as my house, and make my bed in the darkness (Job 17:14), and sa...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
אִם ־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁאֹ֣ול בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝ † חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying ter...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
If I wait, (n) the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (n) Though I should hope to come from adversity to prosperity, as your discourse pretends....
_Hell. Seol. The region of the dead. (Challoner) --- Protestants, "grave." (Haydock) --- But this text proves that there was a place of rest called hell. (Worthington) --- He speaks here chiefly of th...
(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. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE [IS] MINE HOUSE,.... Not that Job put an "if" upon, or made a doubt of waiting upon God in private or public; or of waiting for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of pr...
If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. Ver. 13. _If I wait, the grave is mine house_] In that congregation house of all living (as it is called, Job 30:23) both I a...
_If I wait, the grave is my house_ Hebrew, אם אקוה, _im akaveh_, If I eagerly desire and expect any thing now, it is the grave, the only habitation I can promise myself; and which I am just entering....
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
He was so close to dying that he could call the pit (the grave) his father, and he could refer to the worm that would consume his body, as his mother or sister....
10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch the...
IF I WAIT; if I should give way to those hopes of my deliverance and restoration which you suggest to me. THE GRAVE IS MINE HOUSE: I should be sadly disappointed; for I am upon the borders of the grav...
Job 17:13 wait H6960 (H8762) grave H7585 house H1004 make H7502 (H8765) bed H3326 darkness H2822 If I wait - Job 14:14; Psalms 27:14; Lamentations 3:25-26 the grave - Job 17:1,...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
_If I wait, the grave is mine house._ THE HOUSE OF THE GRAVE I. Describe the house. 1. The grave is a very spacious house. 2. It is very dark and dreary. 3. It is a house of silence. It is empty....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his NIGHT INTO...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, an...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
Isaiah 57:2; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Job 14:14; Job 17:1; Job 30:23; Lamentations 3:25; Lamentations 3:26; Psalms 139:8; Psalms 27:14...
Wait — For deliverance, I should be disappointed; for I am upon the borders of the grave, I expect no rest but in the dark grave, for which therefore I prepare myself. I endeavour to make it easy, by...