Job 17:16
Good News Translation
Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Contemporary English Version
Will it keep me company in the world of the dead?

New American Bible
Will they descend with me into Sheol? Shall we go down together into the dust?

Douay-Rheims Bible
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

the bars of the pit

Job 18:13,14 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms. . . .

Job 33:18-28 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. . . .

Psalm 88:4-8 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Isaiah 38:17,18 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. . . .

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

rest

Job 3:17-19 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Context
Job Prepares for Death
15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience? 16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Cross References
Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 7:9
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 18:1
Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

Job 21:33
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

Job 17:15
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