English Standard Version
Job 16:22
22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
Job 16:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- New International Version (NIV)“Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return.
Context of Job 16:22
20My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, 21that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:22 word by word
כִּֽי־שְׁנ֣וֹת מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְאֹ֖רַח לֹא־אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:22
- Job 14:5Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
- Job 7:9As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
- Ecclesiastes 12:5they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—
Commentaries on Job 16:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22When a few years are come - I prefer Mr. Good's version: - "But the years numbered to me are come. And I must go the way whence I shall not return." Job could not, in his present circumstances, expect a few years of longer life; from his own conviction he was expecting death every hour. The next verse, the first of the following chapter, should come in here: My breath is corrupt, etc. - He felt himself as in the arms of death: he saw the grave as already…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22When a few years are come - Margin “years of number;” that is, numbered years, or a few years. The same idea is expressed in Job 7:21; see the notes at that place. The idea is, that he must soon die. He desired, therefore, before he went down to the grave, to carry his cause before God, and to have, as he did not doubt he should have, the divine attestation in his favor; compare the notes at Job 19:25-27. Now he was overwhelmed with calamities and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-22Job thought his suffering would lead to his death (7:7, 21; 10:20–22). He asked God to show his innocence, even if he died before that happened.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. few--literally, "years of number," that is, few, opposed to numberless (Ge 34:30).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 16
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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