Job 17:15
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Cross References
Job 4:6Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
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 →