If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.(Job 17:13)

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.(Job 17:14)

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?(Job 17:15)

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,(Job 18:1)

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.(Job 18:2)

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?(Job 18:3)

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Job 17:16 - Cross Reference

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. (Jonah 2:6)

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. (Job 33:18)

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. (Ezekiel 37:11)

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. (Job 18:13)

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: (2 Corinthians 1:9)

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. (Job 3:17)

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. (Psalm 143:7)

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: (Psalm 88:4)

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. (Isaiah 38:17)