Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
World English Bible Classic
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? As for my hope, who will 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 youth will lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, 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 →