Job 17:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

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  • Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. 18 Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, 19 Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
  • Job 18:13-14 : 13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born. 14 Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
  • Job 33:18-28 : 18 He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart. 19 And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones `is' enduring. 20 And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food. 21 His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen! 22 And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death. 23 If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness: 24 Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.' 25 Fresher `is' his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth. 26 He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness. 27 He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me. 28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
  • Ps 88:4-8 : 4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength. 5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. 6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. 7 Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And `with' all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah. 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down `to' the pit.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins. 18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 15 And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

  • 26 Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

  • Job 14:12-14
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    12 And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

    13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

    14 If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

  • 7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

  • 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • 1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • 15 Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.

  • 32 And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.

  • 9 `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

  • 18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

  • 17 There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

  • 11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

    10 He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

  • 9 And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.

  • 21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

  • Ps 88:4-6
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    4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

    5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

    6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

  • 19 And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

  • 17 Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

    22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

  • 10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

  • 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

  • 19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

  • 6 To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

  • 20 And I have caused thee to go down, With those going down to the pit, Unto the people of old, And I have caused thee to dwell in the land, The lower parts -- in wastes of old, With those going down to the pit, So that thou art not inhabited, And I have given beauty in the land of the living.

  • Ps 49:14-15
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    14 As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form `is' for consumption. Sheol `is' a dwelling for him.

    15 Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

  • 20 The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

  • 15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

  • Job 10:20-21
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    20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

    21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

  • 7 And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

  • 19 It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

  • 13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.

  • 22 And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

  • 25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

  • 22 When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

  • 4 If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

  • 23 Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, And her assembly is round about her grave, All of them wounded, falling by sword, Because they gave terror in the land of the living.

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    5 For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

  • 2 If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

  • 15 Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • 3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

  • 4 And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,

  • 6 In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.