Job 17:16
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All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 7:9
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 18:1
Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

Job 21:33
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

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All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

the bars of the pit

Job 18:13,14 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms. . . .

Job 33:18-28 Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword. . . .

Psalm 88:4-8 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Isaiah 38:17,18 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. . . .

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

rest

Job 3:17-19 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Context
Job Prepares for Death
15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience? 16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
Lexicon
Will it go down
תֵּרַ֑דְנָה (tê·raḏ·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

to the gates
בַּדֵּ֣י (bad·dê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of

of Sheol?
שְׁאֹ֣ל (šə·’ōl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

Will we go down
נָֽחַת׃ (nā·ḥaṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5183: A descent, imposition, unfavorable, favorable, restfulness

together
יַ֖חַד (ya·ḥaḏ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3162: A unit, unitedly

into
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the dust?”
עָפָ֣ר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud


Additional Translations
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.

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when once there is rest in 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?"

To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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