Job 17:16New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in the dust.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly—into the dust, is the descent!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— [To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when [our] rest together is in the dust.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— They shall go down to the bottom of Sheol; they shall descend together into the dust.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Will they go down with me to the grave{gr.Hades}, or shall we go down together to the tomb?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. |
They shall go down
3381 {3381} Primeיָרַדyarad{yaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
to the bars
905 {0905} Primeבַּדbad{bad}
From H0909; properly separation; by implication a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as adverb, apart, only, besides.
of the pit,
7585 {7585} Primeשְׁאוֹלsh@'owl{sheh-ole'}
From H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), including its accessories and inmates.
when
x518 (0518) Complementאִם'im{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
[ our] rest
5183 {5183} PrimeנָחַתNachath{nakh'-ath}
From H5182; a descent, that is, imposition, unfavorable ( punishment) or favorable ( food); also (intransitively; perhaps from H5117), restfulness.
together
3162 {3162} Primeיַחַדyachad{yakh'-ad}
From H3161; properly a unit, that is, (adverbially) unitedly.
[ is] in
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
the dust.
6083 {6083} Primeעָפָר`aphar{aw-fawr'}
From H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence clay, earth, mud. |
Job 17:16
_ _ They — namely, my hopes shall be buried with me.
_ _ bars — (Isaiah 38:10). Rather, the wastes or solitudes of the pit (sheol, the unseen world).
_ _ rest together — the rest of me and my hope is in, etc. Both expire together. The word “rest” implies that man’s ceaseless hopes only rob him of rest. |
Job 17:16
They — My hopes, of which he spake in the singular number, Job 17:15, which he here changes into the plural, as is usual in these poetical books. Bars — Into the innermost parts of the pit: my hopes are dying, and will be buried in my grave. We must shortly be in the dust, under the bars of the pit, held fast there, 'till the general resurrection. All good men, if they cannot agree now will there rest together. Let the foresight of this cool the heat of all contenders, and moderate the disputers of this world. |
Job 17:16
(p) They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
(p) All worldly hope and prosperity fail which you say, are only signs of God's favour but seeing that these things perish, I set my hope in God and in the life everlasting. |
- the bars of the pit:
Job 18:13-14 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. ... His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Job 33:18-28 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. ... He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Psalms 88:4-8 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: ... Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:17-18 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. ... For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
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- rest:
Job 3:17-19 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ... The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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