Job 17:16
After I descend to the place where the dead are, ◄will I be able to confidently expect anything good there?/I certainly will not be able to confidently expect anything good there.► [RHQ] It will be as though [RHQ] I and the things I hope for will descend with me into the dust where the dead are.”
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Job 3:17After wicked people die, they do not cause any more troubles; those who are very tired now will rest.
Job 20:11Previously their bodies were young and strong, but they will die and their bodies will be buried in the ground.
Psalms 88:4Because I have no more strength, other people also consider that I will soon die.
Isaiah 38:17Truly, my suffering was good for me; you loved me, and as a result you have rescued me from dying and have also forgiven all my sins.
Jonah 2:6I sank down to where the mountains start rising [MET] from the bottom of the sea. I thought that forever it would be as though my body would be in a prison [MTY] inside the earth below me. But you, Yahweh God, whom I worship, rescued me from going down to the place of the dead.
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 →