Job 17:13
“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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“Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:”
“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”
“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”