Job 16:22
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
American Standard 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
21That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
Cross References
Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about 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 →