约伯记 17:13-14 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father ; i.e. I do not murmur; I accept my lot; I am ready to lie down with corruption, and embrace it, and call it "my father," and henceforth remain with it. The idea that the soul is still with the body in the grave, more or less closely attached to it, and sensible of its condition and changes, was widely prevalent in the ancient world. Where bodies were simply buried, the horrible imagination of a close association with corruption naturally... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 17:13

If I wait - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם 'ı̂m) is often used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my home. I have made up my mind to it, and have no other expectation.”The grave - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl. It may mean here either the grave, or the region of departed spirits, to which he expected soon to descend.Mine house - My home; my permanent abode.I have made my bed - I am certain of making my bed... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 17:14

I have said - Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus address the grave.”To corruption - The word used here (שׁחת shachath) means properly a pit, or pit-fall, Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:15; a cistern, or a ditch, Job 9:31; or the sepulchre, or grave, Psalms 30:9; Job 33:18, Job 33:30. The Septuagint renders it here by θανάτον thanaton - death. Jerome (Vulgate), putredini dixi. According to Gesenius (Lex), the word never has the sense of corruption. Schultens, however,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 17:13

Job 17:13. If I wait, the grave is my house Hebrew, אם אקוה , im akaveh, If I eagerly desire and expect any thing now, it is the grave, the only habitation I can promise myself; and which I am just entering. There I am going to rest in a bed where I shall not be disturbed, for which therefore I am preparing myself. In all situations, and amidst all changes, we should keep the grave in view, the bed in which we are shortly to lie, and, by preparation for it, should endeavour to make it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 17:14-15

Job 17:14-15. I have said to corruption Hebrew, קראתי , karati, I have called to corruption; to the grave, where the body will be dissolved and become corrupt. Thou art my father I am near akin to thee, being formed out of thee, and thou wilt receive and embrace me, and keep me in thy house as parents do their children. To the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister A near relation, being of the same origin, and because of the most strict and intimate union between us. And where is... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (16:1-17:16)Tired at this repetition of the friends’ unhelpful teaching, Job says he could give similar ‘comfort’ if he were in their position and they in his (16:1-5). His argument with God may not have brought relief from his pain, but neither has his silence. In fact, his physical condition only becomes worse (6-8). God opposes him and people insult him. Some deliberately try to do him harm (9-11). He feels like a helpless victim that wild animals attack, like a target... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 17:13

the grave. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35 . Compare Job 17:16 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 17:13

Job 17:13. If I wait, the grave is mine house— I have no hope; the grave is my house: I have spread my couch in darkness. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 17:13

13. Rather, "if I wait for this grave (Sheol, or the unseen world) as my house, and make my bed in the darkness (Job 17:14), and say to corruption," rather, "to the pit" or "grave," &c. (Job 17:14- :). Where then is my hope? [UMBREIT]. The apodosis is at Job 17:15. read more