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14 if I call out to the Pit,[a] ‘You’re my father!’
    or say to the worm,[b] ‘My mother!’ or ‘My sister!’
15 where would my hope be?

“And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?
16 Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors[c] of the afterlife?[d]
        Will we descend together into the dust?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:14 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
  2. Job 17:14 I.e. an agent of punishment in the afterlife
  3. Job 17:16 The Heb. lacks that lock the doors
  4. Job 17:16 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead