Job 17:15
And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.
16You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”
Cross References
Job 4:6Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 14:19Waters have worn away stones, || Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, || And You have destroyed the hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
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 →