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 are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’ 15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked – men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations? 17They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ 18But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

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 his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
• Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.
• Psalms 102:24I say, “O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
• Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might 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 open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• Matthew 24:37For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.
• 1 Peter 3:19In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
• 2 Peter 2:5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

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