Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend 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?”
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.
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 hope}? 16 Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into 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 foundations of [the] mountains; the Underworld--its bars [were] around me forever. But you brought up my life from [the] pit, Yahweh my God.
Job 18:13-14
It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
Job 33:18-28
He spares his life from [the] pit and his life from passing over the river [of death].
Psalm 88:4-8
I am reckoned with [those] descending to [the] pit. I am like a man without strength,
Psalm 143:7
Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.
Isaiah 38:17-18
Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved my life from [the] pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Ezekiel 37:11
And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'
2 Corinthians 1:9
But [we] ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,