Job 17:16 Cross References - NSB

¹⁶ »Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?«

¹⁷ »There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ »Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout. ¹⁹ »The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

¹³ »It eats away parts of his skin. Death’s firstborn devours his limbs. ¹⁴ »He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁸ »It is to preserve him from the pit and keep his life from perishing by the sword. ¹⁹ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones. ²⁰ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out. ²² »He draws near to the pit and to the messengers of death. ²³ »Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him, ²⁴ to be gracious to him and say: ‘Spare him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom for him!’ ²⁵ »His flesh is renewed like a child’s. It is restored as in the days of his youth. ²⁶ »He prays to God and finds favor with him. He sees God’s face and shouts for joy! God restores him to his righteous state. ²⁷ »He comes to men and says: ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.’ ²⁸ »He redeemed me from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.

⁴ I am numbered with those who go into the pit. I am like a man without any strength. ⁵ I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care). ⁶ You have put me in the bottom of the pit, in deep dark places. ⁷ Your rage lies heavily on me. You afflict me with all your waves. ⁸ You have taken my friends far away from me. You made me disgusting to them. I am shut in, and I cannot get out.

⁷ Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

¹⁷ »Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ »For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

¹¹ Jehovah also said: »Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

⁶ »I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?

⁹ Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.