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 surround him so that he cannot see. He walks above the clouds.’ 15“Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken? They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away. 17They told God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?’ 18Yet, he filled their homes with good things. (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)

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 15:32It will happen before his time has come, and his branch will not become green.
• Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will throw ⌞wicked people⌟ into the deepest pit. Bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I will trust you.
• Psalms 102:24I said, “My God, don’t take me now in the middle of my life. Your years ⌞continue on⌟ throughout every generation.
• Ecclesiastes 7:17Don’t be too wicked, and don’t be a fool. Why should you die before your time is up?
• Genesis 7:11On the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, all the deep springs burst open. The sky opened,
• Matthew 24:37“When the Son of Man comes again, it will be exactly like the days of Noah.
• 1 Peter 3:19In it he also went to proclaim his victory to the spirits kept in prison.
• 2 Peter 2:5God didn’t spare the ancient world either. He brought the flood on the world of ungodly people, but he protected Noah and seven other people. Noah was his messenger who told people about the kind of life that has God’s approval.

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