Job 16:22
20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- KJV
- When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- WEB
- For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
- ASV
- For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- DARBY
- For years [few] in number shall pass, and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
- BLB
- For the years of [my] number have come, and the path of no return I shall walk.
- ÅB
- for få år vil det gå før jeg vandrer den vei som jeg ikke vender tilbake.
[^1]: d.e. med tomme ord.
[^2]: mine fiender, JBS 16, 11.
[^3]: d.e. oppgitt min makt og høyhet.
[^4]: JES 26, 21. 1MO 4, 10. - OTB
- For etter noen få år har gått,
skal jeg gå veien uten retur. - B1930
- for få år vil det gå før jeg vandrer den vei som jeg ikke vender tilbake.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Read in contextJob 14:14
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Read in contextJob 7:9–10
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Read in contextJob 14:5
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:5
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
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