Job 17:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, When our rest together is in the dust. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [My hope] shall go down to the bars of Sheol (the unseen state) when once there is rest in the dust. American Standard Version (1901) It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust. Common English Bible Will they go down with me to the underworld; will we descend together to the dust? Catholic Public Domain Version Everything of mine will descend into the deepest underworld; do you think that, in that place at least, there will be rest for me? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest? |
The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.
Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’
at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.