Job 17:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, When our rest together is in the dust.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [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)

¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Will they go down with me to the underworld; will we descend together to the dust?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 17:16 Cross References

Job 18:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Job 20:11

Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Job 7:9

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

Psalm 143:7

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.

Ezekiel 37:11

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.’

Jonah 2:6

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.

2 Corinthians 1:9

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.