Job 17:15

Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';

16They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.

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Cross References

Job 4:6Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

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 thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

Lamentations 3:18And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the 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 →

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