“They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”
"Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?" Job asks whether his hopes descend into the grave with him. The verse suggests that if vindication does not come before death, it will not come at all. The finality of the grave seems to be the finality of all possibility. Chapter 17 ends in profound darkness, with Job having abandoned hope for earthly justice or divine explanation.
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