Job 17:13
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 17:13 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 17:13 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 17:13 — KJV
“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”
— Job 17:13 (KJV)
Job 17:13 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 17:13
“Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:13: grave, house, made
“And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:13: grave, house, made
“And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?”
Shares key themes with Job 17:13: mine, house, made
“That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? sheweth...: Heb. uncovereth mine ear”
Shares key themes with Job 17:13: wait, mine, made
“And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.”
Shares key themes with Job 17:13: house, made, bed
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