Job 17:16
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Note Sheol is the place of the dead.
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the bars of the pit
- Job 18:13, 14; Job 33:18–28; Psalm 88:4–8; Psalm 143:7; Isaiah 38:17, 18; Jonah 2:6
- rest
- Job 3:17–19; Ezekiel 37:11; 2 Corinthians 1:9