🌪️WEB · Job 17:16
What does Job 17:16 mean?
"Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”"
— Job 17:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
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