14 If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
15 Where then is my (A)hope?
As for my hope, who can see it?
16 Will they go down (B)to the gates of [a]Sheol?
Shall we have (C)rest together in the dust?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:16 The abode of the dead

14 if I say to corruption,(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm,(B) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope—(C)
    who can see any hope for me?(D)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(E)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”(F)

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14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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