Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
King James Version
In Context
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Cross References
Job 4:6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Lamentations 3:18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished 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 →