Job 17:16
What meaning of the job 17:16 in the Bible?
What does Job 17:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."
What does Job 17:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."
Verse Job 17:16. _THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT_] All that I have must descend into the depths of the grave. Thither are we all going; and there alone can I _rest_. בדי baddey, which we t...
THEY SHALL GO DOWN - That is, my hopes shall go down. All the expectations that I have cherished of life and happiness, will descend there with me. We have a similar expression when we say, that a man...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
THE PIT. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. Compare Job 17:13....
Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave. Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT, WHEN OUR REST TOGETHER IS IN THE DUST._ They - namely, my hopes, shall be buried with me. BARS - (Isaiah 38:10, "I shall go to the gates of the grave;" J...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT. — The last verse of this chapter, which is itself one of the most difficult, is the most difficult of all. The difficulty consists in this: _the bars of the...
בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם ־יַ֖חַד עַל ־עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת׃ ס...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying ter...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
(p) They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. (p) All worldly hope and prosperity fail which you say, are only signs of God's favour but seeing that these...
_Deepest pit. Literally hell. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "We shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust." My hope may be frustrated by death; (Haydock) or you, my frien...
(11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. (12) They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT,.... He himself, and his friends, and the hopes they would have him entertain; these should all go down together to the grave, and there lie barred and locked...
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. Ver. 16. _They shall go down to the bars of the pit_] That is, I and my things, or I and my hopes of prosperity,...
_They shall go down to the bars of the pit_ They that would see my hope must go down into the grave, or rather into the invisible world, to behold it. Or, he means, My hope shall go down, of which he...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch the...
THEY; either, 1. They that would see my hope, they must go into the grave to behold it. Or rather, 2. My hopes; of which he spoke in the singular number, JOB 17:15, which he here changeth into the pl...
Job 17:16 down H3381 (H8799) gates H905 Sheol H7585 rest H5183 together H3162 dust H6083 the bars of the pit - Job 18:13-14, Job 33:18-28; Psalms 88:4-8, Psalms 143:7; Isaiah 38:17-18;...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his NIGHT INTO...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, an...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
2 Corinthians 1:9; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 38:18; Job 18:13; Job 18:14; Job 3:17; Job 33:18; Jonah 2:6; Psalms 143:7;...
They — My hopes, of which he spake in the singular number, Job 17:15, which he here changes into the plural, as is usual in these poetical books. Bars — Into the innermost parts of the pit: my hopes a...