New King James Version
Job 17:16
16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together 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 Living Translation (NLT)No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!”
Context of Job 17:16
14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ 15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”
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בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם־יַ֖חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:16
- Job 18:13It devours patches of his skin; The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
- Job 33:18He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
- Psalms 88:4I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no strength,
- Psalms 143:7Answer me speedily, O Lord; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
- Isaiah 38:17Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Jonah 2:6I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest.
- Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
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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