Job 17:15
13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14 and 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?
16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- KJV
- And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- WEB
- where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
- ASV
- Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
- DARBY
- And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
- BLB
- where, then, [is] my hope? And my hope, who can see it?
- ÅB
- hvor er da mitt håp? Mitt håp - hvem øyner det?
- OTB
- Hvor er da mitt håp?
Og hvem ser noe håp for meg? - B1930
- hvor er da mitt håp? Mitt håp - hvem øiner det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 13:15
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
Read in contextJob 19:10
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
Read in contextJob 4:6
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Read in contextJob 6:11
What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
Read in contextJob 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
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