Job 17:13 - Bible Gateway

Job 17:13

KJ21

If I wait, the grave is mine house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

ASV

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

AMP

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home, If I make my bed in the darkness,

AMPC

But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

BRG

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

CSB

If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,

CSBA

If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,

CEB

If I hope for the underworld as my dwelling, lay out my bed in darkness,

CJB

“If I hope for Sh’ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;

CEV

I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed.

DARBY

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:

DRA

If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

ERV

“I might hope for the grave to be my new home. I might hope to make my bed in the dark grave.

EASY

The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.

EHV

If I wait hopefully for the grave to become my house, if I spread out my bed in the darkness,

ESV

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

ESVUK

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

EXB

If the only home I hope for is ·the grave [^LSheol; ^Cthe place of the dead], if I spread out my bed in darkness,

GNV

Though I hope, yet the grave shall be mine house, and I shall make my bed in the dark.

If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,

GNT

My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.

HCSB

If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,

ICB

It might be that the only home I hope for is where the dead are. I might spread out my bed in darkness.

ISV

“If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

JUB

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

KJV

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

AKJV

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

LSB

If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;

LEB

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,

TLB

“If I die, I go out into darkness, and call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.

MSG

“Maybe you’d all like to start over, to try it again, the bunch of you. So far I haven’t come across one scrap of wisdom in anything you’ve said. My life’s about over. All my plans are shattered, all my hopes are snuffed out— My hope that night would turn into day, my hope that dawn was about to break. If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin, If a family reunion means going six feet under, and the only family that shows up is worms, Do you call that hope? Who on earth could find any hope in that? No. If hope and I are to be buried together, I suppose you’ll all come to the double funeral!”

MEV

If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

NOG

If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,

NABRE

If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol, and spreading my couch in darkness,

NASB

If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;

NASB1995

“If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;

NCB

“If I foresee the netherworld as my dwelling, if I spread out my bed in the darkness,

NCV

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

NET

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

NIRV

Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.

NIV

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

NIVUK

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

NKJV

If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,

NLV

If I look for the place of the dead as my home, I make my bed in the darkness.

NLT

What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?

NRSVA