Job 16:22

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

In Context

21So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

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Cross References

Job 14:5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

Job 14:14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

Ecclesiastes 12:5And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

Matthew Henry on Job 16:18-22

Testimony of Conscience; Job's Comfort in Conscious Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Job's… Read the whole commentary →

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