EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 17:16
16When I go to the world of dead people, all my hope will have finished. Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’
Job 17:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
- New International Version (NIV)Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”
Context of Job 17:16
14I will say to the grave, “You are my father.” I will say to the worms that eat me, “Hello, my mother. Hello, my sister.” 15I can hope for nothing that is better than that. No one can find anything better for me. When I go to the world of dead people, all my hope will have finished. Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’
Read all of Job 17Job 17:16 word by word
בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם־יַ֖חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 17:16
- Job 18:13A bad disease eats his skin. It causes his arms and his legs to become useless and he dies.
- Job 33:18He keeps people safe from death, so that they do not go to their graves.
- Psalms 88:4People see me as if I am already in my grave. I feel completely helpless.
- Psalms 143:7Please answer me soon, Lord. I am losing my strength. Do not turn away from me. If you do, I will join those people who are going down into the deep hole of death.
- Isaiah 38:17Yes, it was good for me to have this trouble. You rescued me from the deep hole of death. You removed my sins, and you put them behind your back.
- Jonah 2:6I went very deep in the water, as far as the bottom of the mountains. Deep in the earth, I was in a prison, and its gates had shut for ever. But, Lord, my God, you brought me up from that deep hole.
- Job 3:17After death, wicked people can no longer cause any trouble. People who have become tired can rest.
- Ezekiel 37:11Then the Lord said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are a picture of all Israel's people. The Israelites are saying, “Our bones are dead and dry. There are no good things that we can hope for. We have come to an end.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:9We ourselves thought that we would certainly die. We knew that we could not trust our own strength. We had to trust God. He is the one who causes dead people to rise up to new life. So we could trust him to make us strong.
Commentaries on Job 17:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit - All that I have must descend into the depths of the grave. Thither are we all going; and there alone can I rest. בדי baddey, which we translate bars, signifies also branches, distended limbs, or claws, and may here refer either to a personification of the grave, a monster who seizes on human bodies, and keeps them fast in his deadly gripe; or to the different branching-off-alleys in subterranean cemeteries, or…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16They shall go down - That is, my hopes shall go down. All the expectations that I have cherished of life and happiness, will descend there with me. We have a similar expression when we say, that a man “has buried his hopes in the grave,” when he loses an only son. To the bars of the pit - “Bars of Sheol” - שׁאול בד bad she'ôl Vulgate, “Profoundest deep.” Septuagint, ̓ ̔́ͅ eis hadēn - to Hades. Sheol, or Hades, was supposed to be under the earth. Its…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16the gates of Sheol: Sheol is the place where dead people reside. Ancient people thought it had a gate with bars that allowed no escape.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. They--namely, my hopes shall be buried with me. bars--(Is 38:10). Rather, the wastes or solitudes of the pit (sheol, the unseen world). rest together--the rest of me and my hope is in, &c. Both expire together. The word "rest" implies that man's ceaseless hopes only rob him of rest.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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