OLD TESTAMENT

Job 17:13

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If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

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EXPLANATION

Verse 13. Hell. Seol. The region of the dead. Challoner.—Prot. “grave.” Bible.—But this text proves that there was a place of rest called hell. Worthington.—He speaks here chiefly of the body. Calmet.—Mors ultima linea rerum est. Hor.—“Death is the end of all.” Bible.—If I refrain from complaining, still I cannot expect to be restored to health.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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