Job 16:22
When a few years come, || Then I go [on] the path of no return.”
Literal 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
21And He reasons for a man with God, || As a son of man for his friend.
Cross References
Job 14:5If his days are determined, || The number of his months [are] with You, || You have made his limit, || And he does not pass over;
Job 14:14If a man dies—does he revive? All [the] days of my warfare I wait, until my change comes.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, || And of the low places in the way, || And the almond-tree is despised, || And the grasshopper has become a burden, || And want is increased, || For man is going to his perpetual home, || And the mourners have gone around through the street.
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 →