Job 17:16
It must go down to the bars of the under-world, As soon as there is rest for me in the dust.
Noyes 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? Yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, But they shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am counted with those who are going down to the pit; I am like one who hath no strength.
Isaiah 38:17Behold, my anguish is changed into ease; In love thou hast delivered me from the pit of destruction; Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, 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 →