Job 16:22
For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
In Context
21And oh that a man might plead with God, as one son of earth with the other!
Cross References
Job 14:5Seeing that his days are determined, the number of his months are [fixed] with thee, that thou hast set his bounds which he cannot pass:
Job 14:14Or, when a man dieth, will he live again? all the days of my time of service would I then wait, till [the hour of] my release were come.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when men will be afraid of every elevation, and are terrified on every way, and the almond-tree will refuse [its blossom], and the locust will drag itself slowly along, and the desire will gainsay compliance; because man goeth to his eternal 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 →