Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
Darby Translation
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
15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
Job 20:11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
Isaiah 38:17Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah 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 →