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Job 17:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?” "

Job 17:16

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14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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"There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest."

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From This Chapter

Job 17:1

"“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me."

Job 17:2

"Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation."

Job 17:3

"“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?"

Job 17:4

"For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them."

Job 17:5

"He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail."

Job 17:6

"“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face."

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