Job 17:16
They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
Cross References
Job 3:17The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.
Job 20:11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:
Isaiah 38:17Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.
Jonah 2:6I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp my life from the pit, O 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 →