Job 17:16

Job 17:16 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

16Will it go down to the gates of death?

Will we descend together into the dust?”

16“Will it go down with me to Sheol?

Shall we together go down into the dust?”

16“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?

Shall we go down together in the dust?”

16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol?

Will we go down together into the dust?”

16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,

When once there is rest in the dust.

16They shall goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,

or descend together into the dust?”

16Will hope go down to the gates of death with me?

Will we go down together into the dust of the grave?”

16When I go to the world of dead people,

all my hope will have finished.

Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’

16You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”