Job 17:16

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

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Before · Job 17:14–15

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ 15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

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

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FootnoteSheol is the place of the dead.

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