Job 17:16
Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all.
Leeser Tanakh
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
15Ay, where is then my hope? as for my hope, who will see it [fulfilled]?
Cross References
Job 3:17There [where] the wicked cease from troubling; and where the exhausted weary are at rest;
Job 20:11[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4(88:5) I am counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor:
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.
Jonah 2:6(2:7) To the bottoms of the mountains did I go down; the earth [closed] her bars about me for ever: when thou broughtest 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 →