Job 17:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 19 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members. 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword. 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him; 24 Then [God] is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returneth to the days of his youth. 26 He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness. 27 He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not: 28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] 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. 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:15
    81%

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 21:26
    78%

    26They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

  • Job 14:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Ps 141:7
    75%

    7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Job 17:13
    75%

    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Isa 14:15
    73%

    15Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

  • Job 21:32
    73%

    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Ps 30:9
    73%

    9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • Isa 38:18
    72%

    18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

  • Job 20:11
    72%

    11His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Ps 63:9
    72%

    9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Job 7:21
    71%

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

    5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

  • Isa 14:19
    71%

    19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

  • Ezek 31:17
    71%

    17They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

    22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

  • Isa 26:19
    71%

    19Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

  • Ps 49:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

    15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. {{Selah

  • Eccl 3:20
    70%

    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Job 34:15
    70%

    15All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Eccl 12:7
    70%

    7and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • Ps 49:19
    70%

    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • Job 21:13
    70%

    13They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • Job 33:22
    70%

    22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

  • Job 16:22
    69%

    22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • Job 7:4
    69%

    4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 6:5
    69%

    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

  • Amos 9:2
    69%

    2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

  • Ps 55:15
    69%

    15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Isa 29:4
    69%

    4And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.