Job 17:16
[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Young's Literal Translation
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
15And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
Job 20:11His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
Isaiah 38:17Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Jonah 2:6To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah 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 →