Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
New American Standard Bible
Shall we together
King James Version
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Holman Bible
or will we descend together to the dust?
International Standard Version
Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"
A Conservative Version
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
Amplified
“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?
Shall we go down together in the dust?”
Bible in Basic English
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
Darby Translation
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust.
Julia Smith Translation
They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.
King James 2000
They shall go down to the gates of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"
Modern King James verseion
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our descent together is in the dust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."
NET Bible
Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
New Heart English Bible
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
The Emphasized Bible
With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!
Webster
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
World English Bible
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
Youngs Literal Translation
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Interlinear
Yarad
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You
15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Cross References
Job 3:17-19
There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Job 18:13-14
The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea , the first-born of death shall devour his members.
Job 33:18-28
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4-8
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Psalm 143:7
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:17-18
Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto 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.
2 Corinthians 1:9
yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: