Job 17:15

Geneva Bible

Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
where then is my hope?Who can see any hope for me?

Hebrew Names Version
Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

King James Version
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

English Standard Version
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

New Century Version
where, then, is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

New English Translation
where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

Amplified Bible
Where now is my hope? And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

New American Standard Bible
Where then is my hope? And who looks at my hope?

World English Bible
Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

Legacy Standard Bible
Where now is my hope?And who beholds my hope?

Berean Standard Bible
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

Contemporary English Version
But what kind of hope is that?

Complete Jewish Bible
then where is my hope? And that hope of mine, who will see it?

Darby Translation
And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?

Easy-to-Read Version
But you can't really call that hope, can you? Does anyone see any hope for me?

George Lamsa Translation
Where is now my hope and my trust? As for my hope, who shall find it?

Good News Translation
Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?

Lexham English Bible
where then is my hope? And who will see my hope?

Literal Translation
And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What helpeth then my longe tarienge? Or, who wil fulfill the thinge, that I loke for?

American Standard Version
Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Bible in Basic English
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

King James Version (1611)
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good?

English Revised Version
Where then is my hope? and as for my hope, who shall see it?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor where is now myn abidyng? and who biholdith my pacience?

Update Bible Version
Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Webster's Bible Translation
And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

New King James Version
Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it?

New Living Translation
Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?

New Life Bible
then where is my hope? Who sees hope for me?

New Revised Standard
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

Revised Standard Version
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

Young's Literal Translation
And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope?

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ All you therefore turne you, and come nowe, and I shall not finde one wise among you. ¹¹ My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart ¹² Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse. ¹³ Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke. ¹⁴ I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister. ¹⁵ Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for? ¹⁶ They shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my hope: Job 4:6, Job 6:11, Job 13:15, Job 19:10

Reciprocal: Job 7:6 - without hope Lamentations 3:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 17:5
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

Genesis 32:28
Then said he, Thy name shalbe called Iaakob no more, but Israel: because thou hast had power wt God, thou shalt also preuaile wt men.

2 Samuel 12:25
For the Lorde had sent by Nathan the Prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidiah, because the Lord loued him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And where [is] now my hope?.... Not the grace of hope, which was in his heart; and though it might sometimes be low in exercise, it could not be lost; it is an anchor, sure and steadfast, and is one of the graces that always abides, and never disappoints and makes ashamed; nor the object of hope, eternal glory and happiness in another world, that is laid up in heaven, and for which he was looking and waiting by faith; but his hope of outward happiness, and of being restored to his former state of prosperity, or a better, which his friends encouraged him to; this had no place in him, nor did he see any reason to cherish it; all ground and foundation of it was removed, as he apprehended; there was nothing on which he could build such an hope as that, see Job 6:11;

as for my hope, who shall see it? that is, which his friends would have him hope for, a line house, a large estate, a numerous family, honour and respect among men, long life, and an abundance of outward peace and happiness; this he was firmly persuaded he should never see, being just going into the grave, nor his friends that suggested these things to him, nor anybody else; though indeed what he himself truly hoped for might be rightly thus described, being things not seen by the eye of the body, nor by carnal sense and reason, but are the invisible glories and realities of another world, for "hope that is seen is not hope", c. Romans 8:24 but Job does not design these, but the former.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And where is now my hope? - What hope have I of life? What possibility is there of my escape from death?

Who shall see it? - That is, who will see any hopes that I may now cherish fulfilled. If I cherish any, they will be disappointed, and no one will see them accomplished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:15. And where is now my hope? — In the circumstances in which I am found, of what use can hope be? Were I to form the expectation of future good, who could ever see it realized? Is it then any wonder that I should complain and bemoan my wretched lot?