Job 17:16

Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

¹⁵ Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
¹⁶ “Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

Gates of Death

Gates of Sheol

Hades

Job

Sheol

Job 3:17-19

“There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.

Jonah 2:6

“I descended to the roots of the mountains.
The earth with its bars was around me forever,
But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

Job 18:13-14

“His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 33:18-28

He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.

Psalm 88:4-8

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Isaiah 38:17-18

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Ezekiel 37:11

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 has perished. We are completely cut off.’

2 Corinthians 1:9

indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;