Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
In Context
14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are 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 your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroys 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 →