Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 17 connects to 10 cross-references. Job laments that his spirit is broken, his days extinguished, and his grave is ready. He challenges his friends to stake their pledge with him before God and reproaches their failure to understand. He describes how the righteous are appalled …
Other Translations
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
<FI> To<Fi> the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
Cross References
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope …
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit …
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our …
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them …