Job 17:13
ContextNET © | If 1 I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, |
NIV © | If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness, |
NASB © | "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; |
NLT © | I might go to the grave and make my bed in darkness. |
MSG © | If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin, |
BBE © | If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; |
NRSV © | If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness, |
NKJV © | If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, |
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NET © | If 1 I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, |
NET © Notes |
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). |