Lost Hope and the Certainty of the Grave

Job 17:11-16

My days are over, my plans cut off, which I had cherished so;

but they [try to] turn [my] night into day, [saying,] 'Light is near!'-in the face of darkness.

"If I hope for Sh'ol to be my house; if I spread my couch in the dark;

if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,'and to worms, 'You are my mother and sister,'

then where is my hope? And that hope of mine, who will see it?

Only those who go down with me to the bars of Sh'ol, when we rest together in the dust."