Job 16:22
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
World English Bible Classic
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 maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
Cross References
Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting 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 →