Job 22:16

Modern English Version

They were cut down before their time; their foundations were swept away by a flood.

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, the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Job 14:19

The waters wear away the stones; its overflow washes away the dust of the earth; and You destroy the hope of man.

Job 15:32

It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not be green.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to Sheol.

Job 21:18

They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm carries away.

Job 24:18

“He is swift as the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn toward the way of the vineyards.

Job 36:14

They die in youth, and their life ends among the unclean.

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Psalm 102:24

I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years endure throughout all generations.”

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will cast the wicked down to the pit of destruction; bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalm 90:5

You carry them away like a flood; they fall asleep; in the morning they are like grass that grows anew:

Proverbs 10:27

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

Ecclesiastes 7:17

Do not be overly wicked, and do not be a fool. Why die before your time?

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

2 Peter 2:5

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;