English Standard Version
Job 22:16
16They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
- New Living Translation (NLT)They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.
Context of Job 22:16
14Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.' 15Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. 17They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?' 18Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:16 word by word
אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:16
- Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
- Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
- Psalms 102:24"O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!"
- Ecclesiastes 7:17Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
- Matthew 24:37For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- 1 Peter 3:19in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
- 2 Peter 2:5if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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
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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
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