Job 17:16 Cross References - Geneva

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

¹⁷ The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest. ¹⁸ The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour. ¹⁹ There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

¹³ It shall deuoure the inner partes of his skinne, and the first borne of death shall deuoure his strength. ¹⁴ His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the King of feare.

¹⁸ And keepe backe his soule from the pit, and that his life should not passe by the sword. ¹⁹ He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore, ²⁰ So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate. ²¹ His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter. ²² So his soule draweth to the graue, and his life to the buriers. ²³ If there be a messenger with him, or an interpreter, one of a thousand to declare vnto man his righteousnesse, ²⁴ Then will he haue mercie vpon him, and will say, Deliuer him, that he go not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation. ²⁵ Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shall returne as in the dayes of his youth. ²⁶ He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes. ²⁷ He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me, ²⁸ He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

⁴ I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength: ⁵ Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand. ⁶ Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe. ⁷ Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah. ⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.

⁷ Heare me speedily, O Lord, for my spirit fayleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.

¹⁷ Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe. ¹⁸ For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.

¹¹ Then he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are cleane cut off.

⁶ I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

⁹ Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead.