Job 14:13
Good News Translation
I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.

New Revised Standard Version
O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Contemporary English Version
Please hide me, God, deep in the ground--and when you are angry no more, remember to rescue me.

New American Bible
Oh, that you would hide me in Sheol, shelter me till your wrath is past, fix a time to remember me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

hide me

Job 3:17-19 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. . . .

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

until

Isaiah 12:1 And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

Isaiah 26:20,21 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away. . . .

appoint me

Mark 13:32 But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

Acts 1:7 But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

remember

Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

Psalm 106:4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

Luke 23:42 And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep. 13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.…
Cross References
Job 7:9
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 14:14
Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Isaiah 26:20
Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

Job 14:12
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