Job 17:16

In 11 translations

BSB

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

KJV

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

WEB

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

LSV

You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”

YLT

[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

DBY

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

DRC

All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

GNV

They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

JPS

They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.

LXXE

Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

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WLC

בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם־יַ֖חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃

LXX-Br

Ἢ μετʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσονται; ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;

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• Job 3:17–19There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
• 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!
• Job 33:18–28to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword. A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his…
• 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 38:17–18Surely 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. For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those…
• Job 18:13–14It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs. He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
• 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.’
• Psalms 88:4–8I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. You have…
• 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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