“ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. ”
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...
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.
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...
the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. Compare Job 17:16 .
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 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 darkn...
If I wait, the grave is mine house— I have no hope; the grave is my house: I have spread my couch in darkness.
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 ),...
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...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
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 unutterabl...
(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:...
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...
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...
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 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...
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520. 10 But as...
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...
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,...
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 we...
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...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction
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,...