Job 16:22
And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
In Context
21My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
23For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.
Cross References
Job 14:5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with you; you have determined his limits, which cannot be surpassed.
Job 14:14Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will be scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.
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 →