Job 17:15-16
15. Who shall see it fulfilled? namely, the "hope" (Job 11:18) which they held out to him of restoration.
16. They—namely, my hopes shall be buried with me.
bars— (Isa 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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