13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
"My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks 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,