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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
אם-אקוה שאול ביתי בחשך רפדתי יצועי
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
Am-Aqvh SHAvl byty bKHSHk rpdty yTSv`y

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
si sustinuero infernus domus mea est in tenebris stravi lectulum meum

King James Variants
American King James Version   
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Authorized (King James) Version   
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
New King James Version   
If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
21st Century King James Version   
If I wait, the grave is mine house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Darby Bible Translation   
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
God's Word   
If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,
International Standard Version   
"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,
NET Bible   
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
New American Standard Bible   
"If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
New International Version   
If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
New Living Translation   
What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?
Webster's Bible Translation   
If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
The World English Bible   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
EasyEnglish Bible   
The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
If I wait -- Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
New Life Version   
If I look for the place of the dead as my home, I make my bed in the darkness.
The Voice Bible   
If I hope only to live in the land of the dead, if I prepare for myself a bed in the darkness,
Living Bible   
“If I die, I go out into darkness, and call the grave my father, and the worm my mother and my sister.
New Catholic Bible   
“If I foresee the netherworld as my dwelling, if I spread out my bed in the darkness,
Legacy Standard Bible   
If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
Jubilee Bible 2000   
If I wait, Sheol is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
Christian Standard Bible   
If I await Sheol as my home, spread out my bed in darkness,
Amplified Bible © 1954   
But if I look to Sheol (the unseen state) as my abode, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
New Century Version   
If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
The Message   
“Maybe you’d all like to start over, to try it again, the bunch of you. So far I haven’t come across one scrap of wisdom in anything you’ve said. My life’s about over. All my plans are shattered, all my hopes are snuffed out— My hope that night would turn into day, my hope that dawn was about to break. If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin, If a family reunion means going six feet under, and the only family that shows up is worms, Do you call that hope? Who on earth could find any hope in that? No. If hope and I are to be buried together, I suppose you’ll all come to the double funeral!”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
If I wait hopefully for the grave to become my house, if I spread out my bed in the darkness,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
Good News Translation®   
My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.
Wycliffe Bible   
If I sustain, either suffer patiently, hell is mine house; and I have arrayed my bed in darknesses. (If I endure, Sheol, or the grave, shall be my house; and I shall array my bed in darkness.)
Contemporary English Version   
I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
Common English Bible © 2011   
If I hope for the underworld as my dwelling, lay out my bed in darkness,
Amplified Bible © 2015   
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home, If I make my bed in the darkness,
English Standard Version Anglicised   
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol, and spreading my couch in darkness,
New American Standard Bible   
If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
The Expanded Bible   
If the only home I hope for is ·the grave [L Sheol; C the place of the dead], if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Tree of Life Version   
If I hope for Sheol as my home, if I make my bed in darkness,
Revised Standard Version   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
New International Reader's Version   
Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.
BRG Bible   
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Complete Jewish Bible   
“If I hope for Sh’ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
If I wait, Sheol is mine bais; I have made my bed in the choshech.
Names of God Bible   
If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,
Modern English Version   
If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
Easy-to-Read Version   
“I might hope for the grave to be my new home. I might hope to make my bed in the dark grave.
International Children’s Bible   
It might be that the only home I hope for is where the dead are. I might spread out my bed in darkness.
Lexham English Bible   
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness,
New International Version - UK   
If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,