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 and my hopes must be suddenly lodged. Some render it thus, If I build, the grave is my house. Solomon calleth it, The house of eternity, Ecclesiastes 12:5. And the Egyptians accordingly call graves everlasting houses, as Siculus saith, lib. i.
I have made my bed in darkness] The grave was Job's house, and therein he had made his bed to rest from his labours. There men follow their works no more, because followed by their works, Revelation 14:13 .