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Job 17:13
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Job 17:13
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
13If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse.
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Job 17:13
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A place of burial; serious, weighty, or sober; as a verb, to carve or engrave.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A place for rest or sleep; also the marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Open the full verse study2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
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Open the full verse study14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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Open the full verse study1MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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Open the full verse study13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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Open the full verse study23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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Open the full verse study25The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
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Open the full verse study14Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
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