Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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.
World English Bible
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
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 And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? 16 To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
Cross References
Job 3:17-19
There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
Jonah 2:6
To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
Job 18:13-14
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
Job 33:18-28
He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
Psalm 88:4-8
I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength.
Psalm 143:7
Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.
Isaiah 38:17-18
Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Ezekiel 37:11
And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.
2 Corinthians 1:9
but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,