Job 17:16
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Majority Standard Bible
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? Who can see any hope for me?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised 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 →