17:13 If 1 I hope for the grave to be my home,
if I spread out my bed in darkness,
1 tn The clause begins with אִם (’im) which here has more of the sense of “since.” E. Dhorme (Job, 253) takes a rather rare use of the word to get “Can I hope again” (see also GKC 475 §150.f for the caveat).