Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will 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.
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."
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 my hope, who sees it? 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
Cross References
Job 3:17-19
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.
Job 18:13-14
It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
Job 33:18-28
He spares a person's life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
Psalm 88:4-8
They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
Psalm 143:7
Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
Isaiah 38:17-18
"Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, 'Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.'
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.