Job 17:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.

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  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest: 18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour: 19 There are small and great, and the seruaunt is free from his maister.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines, the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption, O Lorde my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yea, we receaued the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not put our trust in our selues, but in God, whiche rayseth the dead:
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength. 14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 And kepe his soule from the graue, and his life from the sworde. 19 He chasteneth hym with sickenesse vpon his bedde, he layeth sore punishement vpon his bones: 20 So that his lyfe may away with no bread, and his soule abhorreth to eate any dayntie meate: 21 In so much that his body is cleane consumed away, and his bones appeare which before were not seene. 22 His soule draweth vnto the graue, and his lyfe to death. 23 Now yf there be a messenger, one among a thousande, sent for to speake vnto man, and to shew him the right way: 24 Then the Lord is mercifull vnto him, and sayth, He shalbe deliuered, that he fall not downe to the graue: for I am sufficiently reconciled. 25 Then shal his fleshe be as freshe as a childes, and shal returne as in the dayes of his youth. 26 He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauorable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy, for he will render vnto man his righteousnesse. 27 A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good: 28 Yea he hath deliuered my soule from destruction, and my lyfe shall see the light.
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit: and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength. 5 I am free among the dead: like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue, whom thou remembrest no more, and are cut away from thy hande. 6 Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit: in darknes and in deepenes. 7 Thyne indignation sore presseth me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre from me, and made me to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, I can not get foorth.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Make speede, hearken vnto me O God, my spirite waxeth faynt: hyde not thy face from me, for I am lyke vnto them that go downe into the pyt.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Beholde, bitter as gall was my pensiuenesse, so sore longed I for health, and it was thy pleasure to deliuer my lyfe from the filthy pit: for thou it is O Lorde that hast cast all my sinnes behynde thy backe. 18 For hell prayseth not thee, death doth not magnifie thee: they that go downe into the graue prayse not thy trueth:
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Moreouer he said vnto me: Thou sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: Behold, they say, Our bones are dryed vp, our hope is gone, and we are cleane cut of.

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