Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into 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.
American Standard 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?”
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 who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
Cross References
Job 3:17-19
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
Job 18:13-14
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
Job 33:18-28
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
Psalm 88:4-8
I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
Isaiah 38:17-18
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead: