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 are dying, and will be buried in my grave. We must shortly be in the dust, under the bars of the pit, held fast there, 'till the general resurrection. All good men, if they cannot agree now will there rest together. Let the foresight of this cool the heat of all contenders, and moderate the disputers of this world.
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Job 17:16
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.