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 22:16 - Revised Version 1885 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream: 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 the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: And thou destroyest the hope of man.
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
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.
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.
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.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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.
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;