13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.
15 And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
16 `To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
In this chapter,
His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,