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Verse Job 17:16. _THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT_] All that
I have must descend into the depths of the grave. Thither are we all
going; and there alone can I _rest_.
בדי baddey, which we...
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THEY SHALL GO DOWN - That is, my hopes shall go down. All the
expectations that I have cherished of life and happiness, will descend
there with me. We have a similar expression when we say, that a man...
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CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ
_ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_
2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6)
3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15)
4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine
vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must
now die.
JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
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THE PIT. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. Compare Job 17:13....
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Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the
friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave.
Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...
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The truth in regard to his hope is this, something different from the
tale of his friends,
It shall go down to the bars of the pit,
When once there is rest in the dust.
The _pit_is in Heb. _Sheol_....
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4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to
the grave. (Job 17:1-16)
TEXT 17:1-16
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is _ready_ for me.
2 Surely there are...
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_THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT, WHEN OUR REST TOGETHER IS
IN THE DUST._
They - namely, my hopes, shall be buried with me.
BARS - (Isaiah 38:10, "I shall go to the gates of the grave;" Jo...
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THEY] RV 'it' (i.e. his hope). BARS OF THE PIT] the gates of the world
of the dead: cp. Isaiah 38:10. WHEN, etc.] RV 'when once there is rest
in the dust.' Job moves forward in this speech to the grea...
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JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the
future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises
of restoration in the pre...
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Job knew what happens to dead bodies. And he thought that he was
almost dead. He had no hope for the future. He did not know that God
would rescue him (Job 42:10-17). Job simply wanted to prove that h...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 17
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
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THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT. — The last verse of this
chapter, which is itself one of the most difficult, is the most
difficult of all. The difficulty consists in this: _the bars of the...
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בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם
־יַ֖חַד עַל...
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XIV.
"MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"
Job 16:1; Job 17:1
Job SPEAKS
IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the
doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
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“THE BARS OF SHEOL”
Job 17:1
Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1
He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were
delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
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Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of
whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was
no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
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_Deepest pit. Literally hell. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "We shall go
down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust."
My hope may be frustrated by death; (Haydock) or you, my frien...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! let you and I seek-grace from the LORD, that we may gather
from this chapter all the blessed improvements the HOLY GHOST intended
from it, to convey to his church and people. For y...
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(11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts
of my heart. (12) They change the night into day: the light is short
because of darkness. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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THEY SHALL GO DOWN TO THE BARS OF THE PIT,.... He himself, and his
friends, and the hopes they would have him entertain; these should all
go down together to the grave, and there lie barred and locked...
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together
[is] in the dust.
Ver. 16. _They shall go down to the bars of the pit_] That is, I and
my things, or I and my hopes of prosperity,...
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_They shall go down to the bars of the pit_ They that would see my
hope must go down into the grave, or rather into the invisible world,
to behold it. Or, he means, My hope shall go down, of which he...
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Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, that is, his hope sinks
down to the bars of the underworld, to the realm of death, WHEN OUR
REST TOGETHER IS IN THE DUST, that is, while his body rests in th...
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Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at
the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in
contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
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10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his
return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go
wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch th...
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THEY; either,
1. They that would see my hope, they must go into the grave to behold
it. Or rather,
2. My hopes; of which he spoke in the singular number, JOB 17:15,
which he here changeth into the pl...
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Job 17:16 down H3381 (H8799) gates H905 Sheol H7585 rest H5183
together H3162 dust H6083
the bars of the pit -...
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GRAVE
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death.
CHARACTERS: Job.
CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there
is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
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Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est
spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the
sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to
refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job
would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his...
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1).
“My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is
destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 17:1
The general character of this chapter has been considered in the
introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's
complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their
provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
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2 Corinthians 1:9; Ezekiel 37:11; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 38:18; Job 1
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They — My hopes, of which he spake in the singular number, Job
17:15, which he here changes into the plural, as is usual in these
poetical books. Bars — Into the innermost parts of the pit: my hopes
a...