Job 17:15
Where then is my hope? Yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14I say to the pit, Thou art my father! And to the worm, My mother! and, My sister!
16It must go down to the bars of the under-world, As soon as there is rest for me in the dust.
Cross References
Job 4:6Is not thy fear of God thy hope, And the uprightness of thy ways thy confidence?
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; They pass away without hope.
Job 14:19As the waters wear away the stones, And the floods wash away the dust of the earth, So thou destroyest the hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”
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 →