1. Job 17:13 (ESV)
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Commentary on Job 17:13 (Summary)

Job 17:13 (ESV)

13 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

Job knows better than his friends (see Job 17:12). He knows that, if God does not soon intervene, his only hope of rest is death itself.

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