Job 22:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Who were taken away before their time: and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 22:16 Cross References

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:18

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Job 24:18

He is swift upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: He turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

Job 36:14

They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean

Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!

Psalm 102:24

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

Psalm 90:5

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with the hand.

2 Peter 2:5

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;