Job 17:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?””
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“Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”
King James Version · Public Domain“It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“<FI> To<Fi> the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 17:16 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
- Job 18:13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
- Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
- Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
- Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
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