grave
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
( See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5).
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 m...
(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, ar...
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...
the pit. Hebrew. Sheol. App-35. Compare Job 17:13 .
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 mus...
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...
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, an...
They] RV 'it' (i.e. his hope). Bars of the pit ] the gates of the world of the dead: cp. Isaiah 38:10 . When , etc.] RV 'when once there is rest...
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 al...
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...
“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 onl...
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...
(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...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I seek-grace from the LORD, that we may gather from this chapter all the blessed improvements the HOLY GHOST intende...
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 t...
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...
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...
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...
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520....
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 singul...
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 de...
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 r...
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 occupi...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, that is, his hope sinks down to the bars of the underworld, to the realm of death, when our rest together...
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 1...
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....
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.