Job 17:16 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

[To] the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

English ASV

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

English Amplified

[My hope] shall go down to the bars of Sheol (the unseen state) when once there is rest in the dust.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

[My hope] shall go down to the bars of Sheol (the unseen state) when once there is rest in the dust.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

English EASY 2024

When I go to the world of dead people, all my hope will have finished. Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Will hope go down with me to the place of death? Will we go down into the dirt together?"

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Hope will not go with me when I go down to the world of the dead.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?"

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we descend together in the dust?”

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?"

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Will they descend with me into the nether world? Shall we go down together into the dust?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Will hope go down to the gates of death with me? Will we go down together into the dust of the grave?"

English NIV

Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

English NKJ 1982

Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in the dust?”

English NLT

No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We will rest together in the dust!"

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

No, my hope will go down with me to the grave. We shall rest together in the dust!“

English Tyndale 1537

All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust.

Job 17:16 — Compare Translations