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Job 17:16 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Job 17:16 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 17 verse 16 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”
Job 17:16 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 17:16
Hope descends to death: 'They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.' Job's hope—if any remains—has descended to Sheol's bars (gates). Even there, the language of 'rest together' suggests Job hasn't fully abandoned faith. The dust recalls creation ('dust you are,' Genesis 3:19) and anticipates resurrection hope ('your dead shall live,' Isaiah 26:19). Job's lowest point paradoxically points toward hope's only true source—resurrection power.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 17:16
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“There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.”
“Yahweh my God.”
“for peace I had great anguish”
“It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.”
“we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves”
“Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me”
“Son of man”
“and his life from perishing by the sword.”