Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 88:4(88-5) I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.
Jonah 2:6(2-7) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; yet hast Thou 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 →