They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Treasury of Scripture the bars of the pit Job 18:13,14 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength... 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 with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength... Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like to them that go down into the pit. Isaiah 38:17,18 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption... Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever... rest Job 3:17-19 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest... 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, and our hope is lost... 2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
Context Job Appeals From Men to God
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation? 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them. 5He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 10But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Darby Bible Translation
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust.
King James Bible
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
Young's Literal Translation
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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