14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope?
    Who will see my hope?
16 Will it go down to the bars of (A)Sheol?
    Shall we (B)descend together (C)into the dust?”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:16 Or Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Is rest to be found together in the dust?

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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