Job 22:16
Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
In Context
15Do you observe the path of the age, || That men of iniquity have trodden,
17Those saying to God, Turn aside from us, || And what does the Mighty One do to them?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
Genesis 7:18and the waters are mighty and multiply exceedingly on the earth; and the Ark goes on the face of the waters.
Job 15:32It is not completed in his day, || And his bending branch is not green.
Psalms 55:23And You, O God, bring them down || To a pit of destruction, || Men of blood and deceit do not reach to half their days, || And I trust in You!
Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not do much wrong, neither be a fool, why do you die within your time?
Matthew 24:37and as the days of Noah—so will also be the coming of the Son of Man;
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 →