“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!
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!
- BSB 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!
- 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!
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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 26:20–21Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- Mark 13:32But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Isa 57:1–2The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
- Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
- Job 3:17–19There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
- Ps 106:4Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
- Gen 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Acts 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
- Luke 23:42He said to Jesus, “Lord, 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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