约伯记 17:16 CUVS

Geneva Study Bible - Job 17:16

17:16 {p} They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.(p) All worldly hope and prosperity fail which you say, are only signs of God’s favour but seeing that these things perish, I set my hope in God and in the life everlasting. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:1-16

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 are extinguished, the grave is ready for me" (v.1). Was it true that mockers were with him? They might think they were comforters, but were they not mocking? (v.2). Job considered himself so despised that no one would even shake hands with him, and he thought that God had hidden their heart from... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 17:1-16

SECOND SERIES OF THE DEBATE 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 15-17) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chap. 15) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 16-17) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 18-19) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 18) b. Reply of Job (chap. 19) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 20-21) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 20) b. Reply of Job (chap. 21) The second series of the debate is in the same order as the first, and with the same question in view. ELIPHAZ AND JOB Eliphaz opens in chapter 15. Job is accused of vehemence and vanity; of... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 17:1-16

Comforters and Flatterers Job 17:0 In reading through the Book of Job up to this point, how often we forget what may be termed the mental effects of the discipline Job was undergoing. We think of Job as smitten down bodily, yea, as grievously afflicted in his flesh; we think of his losses of children and of property; we see him sitting in the dust, a desolate man; all this is in accord with the simple facts of the occasion: but have we not forgotten that some disaster may have been wrought in... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 17:11-16

(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: I have made my bed in the darkness. (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. There are... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 17:16

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 you and I may with equal justness, take Job's language as he did, and say, Our breath is corrupt, our days are extinct, and the grave is ready for us. Whether Job's afflictions, or Job's trials may be not our portion in going home through our pilgrimage state, we know not. These things are in a... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 17:16

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 friends, must also go to the house of eternity. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 17:10-16

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 their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job reconciles himself to the grave. Let this make... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 17:11-16

Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction v. 11. My days are past, he felt that he was near the end, and he sank back into his former hopeless complaint, my purposes are broken off, the plans which he had made for his life were cut off, destroyed, even the thoughts of my heart, the projects which he had secretly nursed and affectionately cherished. v. 12. They change the night into day, namely, such joyous plans for life as his friends held before him; the light is short because of darkness, in... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 17:1-16

B.—Job: Although oppressed by his disconsolate condition, he nevertheless wishes and hopes that God will demonstrate his innocence, against the unreasonable accusations of his friendsJob 16-17(A brief preliminary repudiation of the discourses of the friends as aimless and unprofitable):Job 16:1-51 Then Job answered and said:2 I have heard many such things:miserable comforters are ye all.3 Shall vain words have an end?or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?4 I also... read more