Job 17:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 It shall consume the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall consume his strength. 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 He keeps 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 the multitude of his bones with strong pain; 20 So that his life abhors 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 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there is a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness: 24 Then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; he shall return to the days of his youth: 26 He shall pray to God, and He will be favorable to him, and he shall see His face with joy, for He will render unto man His righteousness. 27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me; 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths. 7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to 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.

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    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 21:26
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    26They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • Job 14:12-14
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    75%

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Ps 141:7
    75%

    7Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.

  • Job 17:13
    75%

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Isa 14:15
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    15Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • Job 21:32
    73%

    32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Ps 30:9
    73%

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

  • Isa 38:18
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    18For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

  • Job 3:17
    72%

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

  • Job 20:11
    72%

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

  • Job 7:9-10
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    72%

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • 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 do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Ps 88:4-6
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    71%

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.

    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • Isa 14:19
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    19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trodden under foot.

  • Ezek 31:17
    71%

    17They also went down into hell with it to those who are slain with the sword; and those who were its arm, who dwelt under its shadow in the midst of the nations.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    71%

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • Isa 26:19
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    19Your dead men shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • Ezek 26:20
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    20when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living,

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    14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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    70%

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

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    70%

    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

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

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    70%

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  • Ps 49:19
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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • Job 33:22
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    22Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly clings to the earth.

  • Job 16:22
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    22When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

  • Job 7:4
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    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • Ezek 32:23
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    23Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 6:5
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    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

  • Amos 9:2
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    2Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Isa 29:4
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    4And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.