Job 17:16

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Summary

Job 17:16

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

The bars of the pit

Rest

Job 3:17

Ezekiel 37:11

2 Corinthians 1:9

General references

Isaiah 38:10

Bible References

The bars of the pit

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

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

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

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.

“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.

“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.

Rest

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

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.’

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

General references

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”