Job 16:22
I say this because within a few years I will die; I will walk along the road to the grave from which I will never return.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
In Context
Cross References
Job 14:5You have decided how long our lives will be. You have decided how many months we will live, and we cannot live more months than the ◄limit/number of months► that you have decided.
Job 14:14When we humans die, we will certainly not live again [RHQ]. If I knew that we would live again, I would wait patiently, and I would wait for you to release me from my sufferings.
Ecclesiastes 12:5You will be afraid to be in high places and afraid of dangers on the roads that you walk on. Your hair will become white like [MET] the flowers of almond trees. When you try to walk, you will drag yourself along like [MET] grasshoppers, and you will no longer desire to have sex. Then you will die and go to your eternal home, and people who will mourn for you will be in 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 →