Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
In Context
15where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
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 →