If 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!
Parallel translations
- 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!
- KJV 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!
- NKJV “Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- NASB ¶“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and remember me!
- NLT “I wish you would hide me in the grave and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again!
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Quick answer
Job wishes God would hide him safely until His wrath passed, then remember him. A flicker of hope appears amid despair.
Overview
Job longs for God to conceal him in Sheol until His anger is past and then to remember him at an appointed time. Remarkably, he imagines being kept and recalled, hinting at hope beyond death. This yearning to be remembered by God after the grave points toward the resurrection hope fulfilled in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Isa 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
- Mark 13:32No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Isa 57:1–2The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
- Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- Job 3:17–19There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Ps 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
- Gen 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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