Job 17:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

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  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs. 14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river. 19 Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones, 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare. 21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible. 22 He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death. 23 If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness; 24 and if God is gracious to him and says,‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’ 25 then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor. 26 He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness. 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved. 28 He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power. 6 You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths. 7 Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.(Selah) 8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight. 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:15
    81%

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

  • Job 21:26
    78%

    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Job 14:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Ps 141:7
    75%

    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Job 17:13
    75%

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Isa 14:15
    73%

    15But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.

  • Job 21:32
    73%

    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Ps 30:9
    73%

    9“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

  • Isa 38:18
    72%

    18Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • Job 20:11
    72%

    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Ps 63:9
    72%

    9Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

  • Job 7:21
    71%

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

    5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

    6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

  • Isa 14:19
    71%

    19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

  • Ezek 31:17
    71%

    17Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

    22who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

  • Isa 26:19
    71%

    19Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the Pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

  • Ps 49:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

    15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)

  • Eccl 3:20
    70%

    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Job 34:15
    70%

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

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

    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

  • Eccl 12:7
    70%

    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

  • Ps 49:19
    70%

    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Job 21:13
    70%

    13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

  • Job 33:22
    70%

    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

  • Job 16:22
    69%

    22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

  • Job 7:4
    69%

    4If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the Pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 6:5
    69%

    5For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

  • Amos 9:2
    69%

    2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

  • Ps 55:15
    69%

    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

  • Isa 29:4
    69%

    4You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.