Job 17:15
Good News Translation
Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?

New Revised Standard Version
where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

Contemporary English Version
But what kind of hope is that?

New American Bible
Where then is my hope, my happiness, who can see it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

my hope

Job 4:6 Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

Job 6:11 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

Context
Job Prepares for Death
14I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. 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?…
Cross References
Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Isaiah 38:10
I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

Lamentations 3:18
Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

Job 17:14
Top of Page
Top of Page