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Job_17:13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Ver. 13. If I wait, the grave is mine house] In that congregation house of all living (as it is called, Job_30:23) both I and my hopes must be suddenly lodged. Some render it thus, If I build, the grave is my house. Solomon calleth it, The house of eternity, Ecc_12:5. And the Egyptians accordingly call graves everlasting houses, as Siculus saith, lib. i.
I have made my bed in darkness] The grave was Job’s house, and therein he had made his bed to rest from his labours. There men follow their works no more, because followed by their works, Rev_14:13.