Job 17:15
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 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?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in 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, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Read in contextJob 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Read in contextJob 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Read in contextJob 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Read in contextJob 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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