39/50 This same word is a number of times translated grave and sometimes pit. In the New Testament the same word hell is translated from the Greek word _hades_ and likewise means grave, the condition of death, the tomb. Job was a good and godly man, who tried to obey Jehovah. He had suffered the loss of all his earthly possessions and then his neighbors taunted him because of his suffering; and while he was thus suffering, he prayed that God would permit him to go to hell, saying: "O that thou wouldest hide me in hell [_sheol_, the grave] until thy wrath be past". (Job 14:13) He desired to be hid in the grave until the time of the resurrection, hoping in God's promise that some day the dead would come again. |