Job 17:16
What does Job 17:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 17:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862<FI> To<Fi> the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
Context
v.15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
v.16This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 88:4
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
- 2 Corinthians 1:9
yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
- Job 18:13
The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
- Isaiah 38:17
Behold, it wasformypeacethatI 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 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
- Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
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