Job 22:16 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

ASV:

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

BBE:

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

DBY:

Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;

ERV:

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

JPS:

Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream;

WBS:

Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!

WEB:

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

YLT:

Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

Job 22:16 Cross References

XREF:

Job 14:19 Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy man's hope.

Job 15:32 "It will be accomplished before his time, And his palm branch will not be green.

Job 21:13 "They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:18 "Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

Psalm 90:5 You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Matthew 7:26 "Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

Matthew 7:27 "The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell-- and great was its fall." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

22:16 Which were {l} cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
(l) He proves God's providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.

WES:

22:16 Out of - Before their time. A flood - Who, together with their foundation, the earth and all their supports and enjoyments in it, were destroyed by the general deluge.

MHC:

22:15-20 Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.

CONC:

Carried Cut Flood Foundation Foundations Overcome Overflowed Overflown Poured River Rush Snatched Stream Unexpectedly Violently Washed Waters

Carried Cut Flood Foundation Foundations Overcome Overflowed Overflown Poured River Rush Snatched Stream Time Unexpectedly Violently Washed Waters

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