Job 14 · Verse 13

Job 14:13

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:13, King James Version

Job 14:13 in other translations

BSBIf only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
WEB“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
ASVOh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
YLTO that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
DARBYOh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, —
BBEIf only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
WebsterO that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldst keep me secret, until thy wrath is past, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!

What does Job 14:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Job wishes to be kept hidden in the grave until God's wrath against him shall have passed away. So while God's wrath is visiting the earth for the abounding apostasy which is to precede the second coming, God's people shall be hidden against the resurrection glory (Is 26:19-21). set time--a decreed time (Ac 1:7).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave - Dreadful as death is to others, I shall esteem it a high privilege; it will be to me a covert from the wind and from the tempest of this affliction and distress. Keep me secret - Hide my soul with thyself, where my enemies cannot invade my repose; or, as the poet expresses it: - "My spirit hide with saints above, My body in the tomb." Job does not appear to have the same thing in view when he entreats God to hide him in the grave; and to keep him secret, until his wrath be past. The former relates to the body; the latter to the spirit. That thou wouldest appoint me a set time - As he had spoken of the death of his body before, and the secreting of his spirit in the invisible world, he must refer here to the resurrection; for what else can be said to be an object of desire to one whose body is mingled with the dust? And remember me! - When my body has paid that debt of death which it owes to thy Divine justice, and the morning of the resurrection is come, when it may be said thy wrath, אפך appecha, "thy displeasure," against the body is past, it having suffered the sentence denounced by thyself: Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die; then remember me - raise my body, unite my spirit to it, and receive both into thy glory for ever.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 14:7-15

Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this world. The life of man may fitly be compared to the waters of a land flood, which spread far, but soon dry up. All Job's expressions here show his belief in the great doctrine of the resurrection. Job's friends proving miserable…

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Job 14:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מִ֤יmiwho?H4310
יִתֵּ֨ן\׀yi.Tenwill he giveH5414
בִּשְׁא֬וֹלbish.'olin SheolH7585
תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִיtatz.pi.Ne.niyou will hide meH6845
תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִיTas.ti.re.niyou will conceal meH5641
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
שׁ֣וּבshuvturns backH7725
אַפֶּ֑ךָ'a.Pe.khaanger yourH639
תָּ֤שִׁ֥יתta.Shityou will setH7896
לִ֖יlifor me
חֹ֣קchoka limitH2706
וְתִזְכְּרֵֽנִי\׃ve.tiz.ke.Re.niand you will remember meH2142

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 14:13

  • Isaiah 57:1-2

    The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

  • Isaiah 26:20-21

    Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

  • Mark 13:32

    But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

  • Job 3:17-19

    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

  • Isaiah 12:1

    And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

  • Psalms 106:4

    Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

  • Genesis 8:1

    And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

  • Acts 17:31

    Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

  • Luke 23:42

    And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

  • Acts 1:7

    And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hide me.
3:17-19; Isa 57:1,2
until.
Isa 12:1; 26:20,21
appoint me.
Mr 13:32; Ac 1:7; 17:31
remember.
Ge 8:1; Ps 106:4; Lu 23:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 14:12

    So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Job 14:13

    O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 14:14

    If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

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Job 14:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¡Oh quién me diera que me escondieses en el sepulcro, que me encubrieras hasta apaciguarse tu ira, que me pusieses plazo, y de mí te acordaras!
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Oh! si tu voulais me cacher dans le shéol, me tenir caché jusqu’à ce que ta colère se détourne, me fixer un temps arrêté, et puis te souvenir de moi, –
German
Elberfelder 1871		O daß du in dem Scheol mich verstecktest, mich verbärgest, bis dein Zorn sich abwendete, mir eine Frist setztest und dann meiner gedächtest!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quis mihi hoc tribuat, ut in inferno protegas me, et abscondas me donec pertranseat furor tuus, et constituas mihi tempus in quo recorderis mei?