Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or 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."
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.
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? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
Cross References
Job 3:17-19
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
Job 18:13-14
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
Job 33:18-28
He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Psalm 88:4-8
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Psalm 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
Isaiah 38:17-18
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Ezekiel 37:11
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 is lost; we are clean cut off.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,