Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
KJV
In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea : putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi ?
Vulgate
ἢ μετ’ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσονται, ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;
LXX
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
ASV
בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם יַ֖חַד עַל עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
וֹ
v
noun · 198×
יַחְדָּ֑ו
ychdv
noun · 141×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
נַ֥חַת
ncht
noun · 8×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עָפָ֥ר
'pr
noun · 109×
שְׁא֣וֹל
sh'vl
verb · 66×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Job 3:17 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- Job 3:17 — There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
- Jonah 2:6 — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.