Job 17:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. 18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. 19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases. 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction. 19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones; 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat; 21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ... 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death. 23 If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him; 24 And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life: 25 Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength; 26 He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men; 27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin. 28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory. 18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:15
    81%

    15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • Job 21:26
    78%

    26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Job 14:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

    14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Ps 141:7
    75%

    7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Job 17:13
    75%

    13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Isa 14:15
    73%

    15But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Job 21:32
    73%

    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Ps 30:9
    73%

    9What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

  • Isa 38:18
    72%

    18For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

  • Job 20:11
    72%

    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 63:9
    72%

    9But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • Job 7:21
    71%

    21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    5My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

    6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • Isa 14:19
    71%

    19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • Ezek 31:17
    71%

    17And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Isa 26:19
    71%

    19Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • Ps 49:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

    15But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

  • Eccl 3:20
    70%

    20All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Job 34:15
    70%

    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

    21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

  • Eccl 12:7
    70%

    7And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

  • Ps 49:19
    70%

    19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Job 21:13
    70%

    13Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • Job 33:22
    70%

    22And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

  • Job 16:22
    69%

    22For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • Job 7:4
    69%

    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

  • Ps 6:5
    69%

    5For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

  • Amos 9:2
    69%

    2Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

  • Ps 55:15
    69%

    15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Isa 29:4
    69%

    4And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.