Job 16:22
For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 set aright a man contending with God, as a son of man setteth aright his neighbour!
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, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come —
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when 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 drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long 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 →