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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 17:13 Catholic Bible: My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/17-13.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/17-13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/17-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/17.htm">Chapter 17</a> > Verse 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/17-12.htm" title="Job 17:12">◄</a> Job 17:13 <a href="../job/17-14.htm" title="Job 17:14">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/17.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol, and spreading my couch in darkness, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.</p><p class="hdg">If I wait</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/14-14.htm">Job 14:14</a> Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/27-14.htm">Psalm 27:14</a> Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/3-25.htm">Lamentations 3:25,26</a> Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. . . . </p><p class="hdg">the grave.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/17-1.htm">Job 17:1</a> My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/10-21.htm">Job 10:21,22</a> Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/30-23.htm">Job 30:23</a> I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.</p><p class="hdg">I have made</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/139-8.htm">Psalm 139:8</a> If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/57-2.htm">Isaiah 57:2</a> Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/17.htm">Job Prepares for Death</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">12</span>They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl">If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.</span><span class="reftext">14</span>I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/3-13.htm">Job 3:13</a></span><br />For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/7-9.htm">Job 7:9</a></span><br />As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12</a></span><br />They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/12-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:5</a></span><br />And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/7-13.htm">Bed</a> <a href="/job/7-13.htm">Couch</a> <a href="/job/17-12.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/17-12.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/job/17-1.htm">Grave</a> <a href="/esther/6-12.htm">Home</a> <a href="/job/15-31.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/job/8-17.htm">House</a> <a href="/job/14-13.htm">Nether-World</a> <a href="/job/14-13.htm">Sheol</a> <a href="/job/15-29.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/job/14-13.htm">Underworld</a> <a href="/job/14-16.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/job/14-14.htm">Waiting</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/22-24.htm">Bed</a> <a href="/job/38-40.htm">Couch</a> <a href="/job/18-6.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/18-18.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/job/17-14.htm">Grave</a> <a href="/job/38-20.htm">Home</a> <a href="/job/17-15.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/job/18-15.htm">House</a> <a href="/job/17-16.htm">Nether-World</a> <a href="/job/17-16.htm">Sheol</a> <a href="/job/29-19.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/job/17-16.htm">Underworld</a> <a href="/job/20-26.htm">Wait</a> <a href="/job/18-12.htm">Waiting</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/job/17-13.htm">Job 17:13 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: as bed darkness for grave home hope I If in is look make my only out Sheol spread the<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/job/17-13.htm">OT Poetry: Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/17-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 17:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 17:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/17-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 17:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 17:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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