Job 17:16
Everything of mine will descend into the deepest underworld; do you think that, in that place at least, there will be rest for me?
Catholic Public Domain 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
15Therefore, where is my expectation now, and who is it that considers my patience?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.
Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
Isaiah 38:17Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 2:6The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head.
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 →