Job 17:16

¹⁴ I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

¹⁵ 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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
KJV: They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
WEB: Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
ASV: It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
DARBY: It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
BLB: Will [it] go down into the hands of Sheol, if we may rest together upon the dust?”

ÅB: Til dødsrikets bommer farer de[^4] ned, på samme tid som jeg går til hvile i støvet.
[^1]: livskraft.
[^2]: d.e. gå i borgen for meg, OSP 6, 1; 11, 15.
[^3]: for sine forfølgere.
[^4]: mine forhåpninger.
OTB: Vil det stige ned med meg til Sheol?
Skal vi sammen gå ned i støvet?”
B1930: Til dødsrikets bommer farer de ned, på samme tid som jeg går til hvile i støvet. / < mine forhåpninger.>

Job 3:17–19
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
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Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
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Isaiah 38:17–18
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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Job 18:13–14
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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Job 33:18–28
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
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Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
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Psalms 88:4–8
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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