13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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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,