Job 17:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in 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 answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 20:11

His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope

Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O LORD; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me; Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

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.

Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars closed upon me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

2 Corinthians 1:9

yea, we ourselves have had the answer of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: