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Job 17:16Job.17.16

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

KJV

Hebrew original

בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם יַ֖חַד עַל עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Elle descendra vers les portes du séjour des morts, Quand nous irons ensemble reposer dans la poussière.

KJV

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

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    the just who were held in the bonds of original sin." But among them was Job, who says of himself ( Job 17:16 ): "All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit." Therefore Christ descended into the deepest pit. On the contrary, Regarding the hell of the lost it is written (…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    thers. Therefore the limbo of the Fathers is the same as hell. Objection 3: Further, it is written ( Job 17:16 ): "All that I have shall go down into the deepest hell [Douay: 'pit']." Now since Job was a holy and just man, he went down to limbo. Therefore limbo is the same as the…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    omini collaudatus, de semetipso loquitur dicens: In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea (Job XVII, 16) . Et rursum: Si sustinuero, inquit, infernus domus mea est (Ibid., vers. 13) . Rursumque Deum expostulans dicit: Quis mihi tribuat ut in inferno protegas me, et absc…

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