Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is mine house— I have no hope; the grave is my house: I have spread my couch in darkness.

Related Commentaries of Job 17:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 sen...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. Compare Job 17:16 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 hou...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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, an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RM 'If I hope, Sheol is mine house.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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 onl...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 fo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 sa...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 de...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 r...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 da...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 occupi...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

If I wait, the grave is mine house, if he hopes for the realm of death as his dwelling place; I have made my bed in the darkness, having spread his...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 27:1...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 therefo...

¹³ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Related Commentaries of Job 17:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 17:13