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.
Job 22:16 - New Revised Standard Version They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Which were cut down out of time, Whose foundation was overflown with a flood: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]? American Standard Version (1901) Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream, Common English Bible who were snatched prematurely when a river flooded their foundations, Catholic Public Domain Version These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who were taken away before their time: and a flood hath overthrown their foundation. |
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.
the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of mortals.
It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
“Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion in the land is cursed; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
“O my God,” I say, “do not take me away at the mid-point of my life, you whose years endure throughout all generations.”
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.
You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?
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 his hand he will hurl them down to the earth.
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 a world of the ungodly;