Job 17:16 “Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into t…”

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

World English Bible

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

American Standard Version

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

Darby Translation

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

Young's Literal Translation

[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

Bible in Basic English

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

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Cross references

“the bars of the pit”

Jonah 2:6 Job 33:18–28 Psalm 88:4–8 Psalm 143:7 Job 18:13 Job 18:14

Jonah 2:6 · BSB

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

Job 33:18–28 · BSB

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Psalm 88:4–8 · BSB

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalm 143:7 · BSB

Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

Job 18:13 · BSB

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 18:14 · BSB

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

“rest”

Job 3:17–19 Ezekiel 37:11 2 Corinthians 1:9

Job 3:17–19 · BSB

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

Ezekiel 37:11 · BSB

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

2 Corinthians 1:9 · BSB

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

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