Job 22:16
14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
15 Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
- KJV
- Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- WEB
- who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
- ASV
- Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
- DARBY
- Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
- BLB
- who were seized, and [it was] not time, their foundation was poured out [by] a torrent?
- ÅB
- de som ble bortrykket før tiden, og under hvis føtter grunnen fløt bort som en strøm,
- OTB
- som ble revet bort før deres tid,
hvis fundamenter ble feid bort av en flom? - B1930
- de som blev bortrykket før tiden, og under hvis føtter grunnen fløt bort som en strøm,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:32
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
Read in contextGenesis 7:17–24
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Read in contextMatthew 24:37–39
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Read in context2 Peter 2:5
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
Read in contextPsalms 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Read in context1 Peter 3:19–20
in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
Read in contextGenesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Read in contextPsalms 102:24
I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
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