Commentary

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 17:16

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16. They--namely, my hopes shall be buried with me.

bars--(Is 38:10). Rather, the wastes or solitudes of the pit (sheol, the unseen world).

rest together--the rest of me and my hope is in, &c. Both expire together. The word "rest" implies that man's ceaseless hopes only rob him of rest.

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