Job 17:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. ”

• Job 17:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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...

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• Job 17:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the pit. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. Compare Job 17:13 .

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• Job 17:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. They shall go down to the bars of the pit - All that I have must descend into the depths of the grave. Thither ar...

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• Job 17:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 t...

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• Job 17:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 17:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...

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• Job 17:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 unutterabl...

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• Job 17:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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:...

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• Job 17:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 loc...

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• Job 17:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 17:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520.       10 But as...

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• Job 17:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 i...

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• Job 17:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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,...

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• Job 17:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

  grave Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).

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• Job 17:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 we...

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• Job 17:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...

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• Job 17:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction

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• Job 17:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 1:9 ; Ezekiel 37:11 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Isaiah 38:18 ; Job 18:13 ; Job 18:14 ; Job 3:17-19 ; Job 33:18-28 ; Jonah 2:6 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 88:4-8

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• Job 17:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 ho...

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