Job 22:16
These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
In Context
15Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
17They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:18For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.
Job 15:32Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.
Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not try to be overly just, and do not try to be more wise than is necessary, lest you become stupid.
Matthew 24:37And just as in the days of Noah, so also will be the advent of the Son of man.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:16-21
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire… Read the whole commentary →