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Job 17:16
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Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,or will we descend together to the dust?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of She'ol, Or descend together into the dust?"
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
Will hope go down to the gates of death? Will we go down together into the dust?"
Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
"Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Shall we go down together in the dust?"
"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
Will it go down with me to Sheol?Shall we together go down into the dust?"
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?"
Will it keep me company in the world of the dead?
Only those who go down with me to the bars of Sh'ol, when we rest together in the dust."
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
Will hope go down with me to the place of death? Will we go down into the dirt together?"
They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust.
Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.
Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"
They shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our descent together is in the dust.
All that I haue, shall go downe in to the pytt, & lye with me in the dust.
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.
Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in the dust.
Alle my thingis schulen go doun in to deppeste helle; gessist thou, whether reste schal be to me, nameli there.
You shall go down with me to Sheol. Shall we not go down together to the dust?
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?"
No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!"
Will it go down with me to the place of the dead? Will we go down together into the dust?"
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the bars of the pit: Job 18:13, Job 18:14, Job 33:18-28, Psalms 88:4-8, Psalms 143:7, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 38:18, Jonah 2:6
rest: Job 3:17-19, Ezekiel 37:11, 2 Corinthians 1:9
Reciprocal: Job 33:28 - will deliver Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring
Cross-References
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
Also I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and will make nations of thee: yea, Kings shall proceede of thee.
This is my couenant which ye shall keepe betweene me & you, & thy seede after thee, Let euery man childe among you be circumcised:
But the vncircumcised man childe, in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised, euen that person shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my couenant.
The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne:
And they blessed Rebekah, and sayde vnto her, Thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousands, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
Againe God said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. growe, and multiplie. a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes.
And Kings shalbe thy nourcing fathers, and Queenes shalbe thy nources: they shall worship thee with their faces towarde the earth, and licke vp the dust of thy feete: and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that waite for me.
For this is a worde of promes, In this same time wil I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They shall go down to the bars of the pit,.... He himself, and his friends, and the hopes they would have him entertain; these should all go down together to the grave, and there lie barred and locked up; these hopes, so as never to rise anymore, and the bodies of himself, and his friends, till loosed by him who has the keys of hell and death: or "the bars shall go down to the grave"; the members of his body, as Jarchi, which are the bars of it, as some in Bar Tzemach; the strength and support of it, as particularly the bones, these shall go down to the grave, and there turn to rottenness and dust; and therefore, as if he should say, as he elsewhere does, "what is my strength, that I should hope?" Job 6:11;
when [our] rest together [is] in the dust; which is man's original, and to which he returns, and in which the dead lie and sleep until the resurrection; and where they are at rest from all adversity and affliction of body, mind, and estate; from all the troubles and vexations occasioned by wicked men, and from all disputes, wranglings, contentions, and animosities among friends, which would be the case of Job, and his friends, when their heads were laid in the dust, and which he supposed would quickly be; and therefore it was in vain for them to feed him with hopes of outward happiness, and for him to entertain them; it best came them both to think of death and the grave as near at hand, where their controversies would be buried, and they would be good friends, and lie quietly together, and take their rest until they should awake and rise to everlasting life.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They shall go down - That is, my hopes shall go down. All the expectations that I have cherished of life and happiness, will descend there with me. We have a similar expression when we say, that a man “has buried his hopes in the grave,” when he loses an only son.
To the bars of the pit - “Bars of Sheol” - שׁאול בד bad she'ôl. Vulgate, “Profoundest deep.” Septuagint, εἰς ᾅδην eis hadēn - to Hades. Sheol, or Hades, was supposed to be under the earth. Its entrance was by the grave as a gate that led to it. It was protected by bars - as prisons are - so that those who entered there could not escape; see the notes at Isaiah 14:9. It was a dark, gloomy dwelling, far away from light, and from the comforts which people enjoy in this life; see Job 10:21-22. To that dark world Job expected soon to descend; and though he did not regard that as properly a place of punishment, yet it was not a place of positive joy. It was a gloomy and wretched world - the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; and he looked to the certainty of going there not with joy, but with anguish and distress of heart. Had Job been favored with the clear and elevated views of heaven which we have in the Christian revelation, death to him would have lost its gloom.
We wonder, often, that so good a man expressed such a dread of death, and that he did not look more calmly into the future world. But to do him justice, we should place ourselves in his situation. We should lay aside all that is cheerful and glad in the views of heaven which Christianity has given us. We should look upon the future world as the shadow of death; a land of gloom and spectres; a place beneath the ground - dark, chilly, repulsive; and we shall cease to wonder at the expressions of even so good a man at the prospect of death. When we look at him, we should remember with thankfulness the different views which we have of the future world, and the source to which we owe them. To us, if we are pious in any measure as Job was, death is the avenue, not to a world of gloom, but to a world of light and glory. It opens into heaven. There is no gloom, no darkness, no sorrow. There all are happy; and there all that is mysterious in this life is made plain - all that is sad is succeeded by eternal joy. These views we owe to that gospel which has brought life and immortality to light; and when we think of death and the future world, when from the midst of woes and sorrows we are compelled to look out on eternity, let us rejoice that we are not constrained to look forward with the sad forebodings of the Sage of Uz, but that we may think of the grave cheered by the strong consolations of Christian hope of the glorious resurrection.
When our rest together is in the dust - The rest of me and my hopes. My hopes and myself will expire together.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 17:16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit — All that I have must descend into the depths of the grave. Thither are we all going; and there alone can I rest.
בדי baddey, which we translate bars, signifies also branches, distended limbs, or claws, and may here refer either to a personification of the grave, a monster who seizes on human bodies, and keeps them fast in his deadly gripe; or to the different branching-off-alleys in subterranean cemeteries, or catacombs, in which niches are made for the reception of different bodies.
When our rest together is in the dust. — That is, according to some critics, My hope and myself shall descend together into the grave. It shall never be realized, for the time of my departure is at hand.
IN those times what deep shades hung on the state of man after death, and on every thing pertaining to the eternal world! Perplexity and uncertainty were the consequences; and a corresponding gloom often dwelt on the minds of even the best of the Old Testament believers. Job's friends, though learned in all the wisdom of the Arabians, connected with the advantages derivable from the Mosaic writings, and perhaps those of the earlier prophets, had little clear or distinct in their minds relative to all subjects post mortem, or of the invisible world. Job himself, though sometimes strongly confident, is often harassed with doubts and fears upon the subject, insomuch that his sayings and experience often appear contradictory. Perhaps it could not be otherwise; the true light was not then come: Jesus alone brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel.
