Job 17:16

World English Bible (2000)

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into 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 are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members. 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought 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 on his bed, with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. 23 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; 24 then God 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 returns to the days of his youth. 26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me. 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't 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 up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:15
    81%

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

  • Job 21:26
    78%

    26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • Job 14:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

  • Ps 141:7
    75%

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

  • Job 17:13
    75%

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

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Isa 14:15
    73%

    15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • Job 21:32
    73%

    32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Ps 30:9
    73%

    9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

  • Isa 38:18
    72%

    18 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

  • Job 3:17
    72%

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

  • Job 20:11
    72%

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

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Ps 63:9
    72%

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

  • Job 7:21
    71%

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Ps 88:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

    5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

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

  • Isa 14:19
    71%

    19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

  • Ezek 31:17
    71%

    17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • Isa 26:19
    71%

    19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

  • Ps 49:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

    15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

  • Eccl 3:20
    70%

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Job 34:15
    70%

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Eccl 12:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 49:19
    70%

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

  • Job 21:13
    70%

    13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • Job 33:22
    70%

    22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Ps 44:25
    69%

    25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • Job 16:22
    69%

    22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

  • Job 7:4
    69%

    4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts 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
    69%

    5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

  • Amos 9:2
    69%

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

  • Ps 55:15
    69%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Isa 29:4
    69%

    4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

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