13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
In this chapter,
His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,