Job 22:16

Job 22:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
• New International Version (NIV)They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

Context of Job 22:16

14Thick clouds cover him, so that he does not see us. He moves around high above the sky.” 15Job, you must not continue to turn against God. That is the way that evil people lived long ago. Those people died before they should have done. A great flood of water took them away. They had no safe place to stand. 17They said to God, “Leave us alone!” They thought that Almighty God could not hurt them. 18But it was God who gave them many good things to enjoy. So I cannot accept the ideas of wicked people.

Job 22:16 word by word

אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Which were cut downקָמַטqâmaţ · to seizeH7059
• out of timeעֵת‛êth · timeH6256
• whose foundationיְסוֹדyesôd · foundationH3247
• was overflownיָצַקyâtsaq · to pour: pourH3332
• with a floodנָהָרnâhâr · riverH5104

Cross-references for Job 22:16

• Job 15:32Before he is old, his life will end. Like a tree that makes no leaves, he will have no success in life.
• Psalms 55:23And as for wicked people, you, God, will send them to their graves. They will go down into the deep hole of death while they are still young. That is what will happen to those cruel people, who kill and cheat others. But I will trust in you, God.
• Psalms 102:24So I pray, ‘My God, please do not let me die now, in the middle of my life. The years of your life continue for ever!
• Ecclesiastes 7:17But do not be too wicked. Do not be a fool. That might cause you to die when you are still young.
• Genesis 7:11When Noah was 600 years old, on the 17th day of the second month, streams of water came up everywhere from below the earth. Also, the water in the heavens poured down on the earth.
• Matthew 24:37Remember what happened when Noah was alive. It will be like that when the Son of Man returns to the earth.
• 1 Peter 3:19Like this, he went to the spirits who were in prison. He told them God's true message.
• 2 Peter 2:5Also, a long time ago, God punished all the bad people who lived in the world. He sent water to cover over all the earth. All the people who had turned away from him drowned in the water. But God kept Noah safe. Noah had told people God's message that they should do right things. So God saved Noah, and seven other people, from the water.

Commentaries on Job 22:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Whose foundation was overflown with a flood - The unrighteous in the days of Noah, who appear to have had an abundance of all temporal good, ( Job 22:18;), and who surpassed the deeds of all the former wicked, said in effect to God, Depart from us. And when Noah preached unto them the terrors of the Lord, and the necessity of repentance, they rejected his preaching with, What can the Almighty do for us? Let him do his worst; we care not for him, Job…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Which were cut down - Who were suddenly destroyed by a flood. On the word used here (קמט qâmaṭ ) see the notes at Job 16:8. It occurs only in that place and this. Its primary notion is that of drawing together or contracting - as the feet of a lamb or calf are drawn together and tied preparatory to being killed; and the meaning here is, probably, “who were huddled together by the waters,” or who were driven in heaps by the deluge, so rapidly and…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-20Verses 15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. cut down--rather, "fettered," as in Job 16:8; that is, arrested by death. out of time--prematurely, suddenly (Job 15:32; Ec 7:17); literally, "whose foundation was poured out (so as to become) a stream or flood." The solid earth passed from beneath their feet into a flood (Ge 7:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 22:16

• Antediluvians
• Flood

In the dictionaries

• Acquaint
• Decree
• Lift
• Sudden
• Thereby
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings