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 - Revised Standard Version They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. 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 thou destroyest the hope of man.
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
“You say, ‘They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
“O my God,” I say, “take me not hence in the midst of my days, thou whose years endure throughout all generations!”
But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.
Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
Be not wicked overmuch, neither be a fool; why should you die before your time?
Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;