Holy Scripture
Job 17:13
A church father on this verse
“Ver. 13. If I wait, hell is mine house; and I have made my bed in the darkness. For the former Saints could undergo adversity, and yet could not, when brought out of the body, be at once freed from the regions of hell; in that He had not yet come, Who should descend thereinto without sin, that He might set free those,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: And my bed has been made in darkness.
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In context
11My days have passed in groaning, And my heartstrings are broken.
12I have turned the night into day: The light is short because of darkness.
— Job 17:13 —
14I have called upon death to be my father, And corruption to be my mother and sister.
15Where then is yet my hope? Or where shall I see my good?