OET interlinear JOB 17:13

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

בַּ֝⁠חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽ⁠י

(Some words not found in UHB: if look_for shəʼōl home_of,my in,darkness spread beds_of,my )

Job is using the single activity of preparing a bed on which to sleep to mean all that is involved in making a place one’s home. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [if I have made my home in the realm of the dead]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

בַּ֝⁠חֹ֗שֶׁךְ

(Some words not found in UHB: if look_for shəʼōl home_of,my in,darkness spread beds_of,my )

Job is using the term darkness to mean the realm of the dead, Sheol, by association with the way that it is dark there. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [if in the realm of the dead]