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Job 17:16

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

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EXPLANATION

Verse 16. Deepest pit. Literally hell. Challoner.—Hebrew “We shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust.” My hope may be frustrated by death; ( Bible.) or you, my friends, must also go to the house of eternity. Calmet.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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