Job 17:15
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
Cross References
Job 4:6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:11-16
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now… Read the whole commentary →