Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
King James Version
In Context
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job 20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, 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 →