"If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.