Job 16:22
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not 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
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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Read in contextJob 14:5
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Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:5
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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