the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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THE MESSAGE
Job 17:13
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If I await Sheol as my home,spread out my bed in darkness,
If I look for She'ol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
"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,
"If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.
If I hope for Sheol as my home,I make my bed in the darkness;
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed.
"If I hope for Sh'ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
"I might hope for the grave to be my new home. I might hope to make my bed in the dark grave.
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
If I wait for Sheol as my house, I have spread out my bed in the darkness;
Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.
For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
If Y `susteyne, ether suffre pacientli, helle is myn hous; and Y haue arayede my bed in derknessis.
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?
If I look for the place of the dead as my home, I make my bed in the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If I wait: Job 14:14, Psalms 27:14, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26
the grave: Job 17:1, Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Job 30:23
I have made: Psalms 139:8, Isaiah 57:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:19 - and Job 14:10 - man Job 33:22 - his soul Job 36:20 - Desire Psalms 49:14 - they Ecclesiastes 3:20 - go Ecclesiastes 12:5 - because Isaiah 14:11 - the worm
Cross-References
In Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, manager of his household affairs.
After Joseph had been taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelites, Potiphar an Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and the manager of his household, bought him from them.
"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years. The seventh year he goes free, for nothing. If he came in single he leaves single. If he came in married he leaves with his wife. If the master gives him a wife and she gave him sons and daughters, the wife and children stay with the master and he leaves by himself. But suppose the slave should say, ‘I love my master and my wife and children—I don't want my freedom,' then his master is to bring him before God and to a door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl, a sign that he is a slave for life.
"If someone kidnaps a person, the penalty is death, regardless of whether the person has been sold or is still held in possession.
The "Great Protest" A great protest was mounted by the people, including the wives, against their fellow Jews. Some said, "We have big families, and we need food just to survive." Others said, "We're having to mortgage our fields and vineyards and homes to get enough grain to keep from starving." And others said, "We're having to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards. Look: We're the same flesh and blood as our brothers here; our children are just as good as theirs. Yet here we are having to sell our children off as slaves—some of our daughters have already been sold—and we can't do anything about it because our fields and vineyards are owned by somebody else." I got really angry when I heard their protest and complaints. After thinking it over, I called the nobles and officials on the carpet. I said, "Each one of you is gouging his brother." Then I called a big meeting to deal with them. I told them, "We did everything we could to buy back our Jewish brothers who had to sell themselves as slaves to foreigners. And now you're selling these same brothers back into debt slavery! Does that mean that we have to buy them back again?" They said nothing. What could they say?
Gill's Notes on the 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 for him, his gracious appearances to him, answers of prayer, performance of promises, and deliverance out of trouble; and especially of waiting his appointed time till his change came, and hoping and expecting eternal life and happiness; all which he determined to do, and did, see Job 13:15; but he says this with respect to the advice of his friends, which should it be taken, the issue of would be no other than what he here suggests; they had intimated, that if he repented and reformed, he might hope for and expect a peaceable tabernacle, and a prosperous habitation, a line house, and affluent circumstances, Job 5:24. Now, says he, should I listen to this, and endeavour to cherish some hope and expectation of small things, and put myself in a waiting posture for them, alas! how soon would it be over, for what other house can I rationally expect but the grave? and this is what I have upon; I think of no other house than that, which is man's long home, the house appointed for all living; there I shall dwell, and make my abode until the morning of the resurrection, and I look for no other; and if I should, I am well assured! should be disappointed:
I have made my bed in the darkness: in the dark grave, where the light of the body is extinct, and where the light of the sun comes not; in houses there are various apartments, some for work and business, as is the shop; others for eating and drinking, as the dining room; and others for sleep and rest, as the bedchamber; now in the house of the grave there is no mention of any but the latter; for there is no work and device in the grave, nor eating and drinking there; but it is a bed where the weary saint lies down and rests upon from all his toil and labour, until he awakes at the resurrection: now Job had settled the matter with himself, he had laid it out in his own mind, and taken a kind of pleasure in the prospect of it; that he had got a house to move into, when he was dislodged from the earthly house of his tabernacle, and where he had made himself, in his own thought, an easy bed, on which he should lay his weary limbs, and take his sleep and rest, until the heavens be no more.
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 sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my home. I have made up my mind to it, and have no other expectation.”
The grave - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl. It may mean here either the grave, or the region of departed spirits, to which he expected soon to descend.
Mine house - My home; my permanent abode.
I have made my bed - I am certain of making my bed there. I shall soon lie down there.
In the darkness - In the grave, or in the dark world to which it leads; see the notes at Job 10:21-22.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 any thing else.
