Job 22:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Which were cut down out of time, Whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ who were snatched prematurely when a river flooded their foundations,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.

Job 22:16 Cross References

Job 15:32

It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.

2 Peter 2:5

and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Genesis 7:11

In 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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?

Psalm 102:24

“O my God,” I say, “do not take me away at the midpoint of my life, you whose years endure throughout all generations.”

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Job 14:19

the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of mortals.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw before the wind and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 24:18

“Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Isaiah 28:2

See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters; with force he will hurl them down to the earth.

Job 36:14

They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.