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Job 17:14–16

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14if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’

and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

15where then is my hope?

Who will see my hope?

16Will it go down to the bars of wSheol?

Shall we ydescend together zinto the dust?”2

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Footnotes

  1. 2Or Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?

Cross references

  1. w[See ver. 13 above]
  2. y[ch. 3:17–19]
  3. zch. 21:26; 40:13

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’

and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

where then is my hope—

who can see any hope for me?

Will it go down to the gates of death?

Will we descend together into the dust?”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and say to corruption, “You are my father,”

and to the maggot, “My mother” or “My sister,”

where then is my hope?

Who can see any hope for me?

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,

or will we descend together to the dust?

NLTNew Living Translation

What if I call the grave my father,

and the maggot my mother or my sister?

Where then is my hope?

Can anyone find it?

No, my hope will go down with me to the grave.

We will rest together in the dust!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father,’

to the maggot, ‘You are my mother or my sister,’

where then is my hope?

And who will see my hope?

Will they go down to the bars of Sheol?

Or shall we descend together into the dust?”

KJV 1900King James Version

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:

To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

And where is now my hope?

As for my hope, who shall see it?

They shall go down to the bars of the pit,

When our rest together is in the dust.