Job 22:16
They were taken before their time; all they had built was washed away.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
In Context
15Why do you insist on following the traditional thinking of the wicked?
17They had told God, ‘Get lost! What can the Almighty do to us?’
Cross References
Genesis 7:11Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
Genesis 7:18The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface.
Job 15:32This will be paid in full before their time has come. They are like tree branches that wither,
Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring down murderers and liars, throwing them into the pit of destruction before they have even lived half their lives. As for me, I will trust in you.
Ecclesiastes 7:17On the other hand, don't decide to live an evil life—don't be a fool! Why die before your time?
Matthew 24:37When the Son of man comes it will be like it was during the time of Noah.
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 →