Job 22:16
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
In Context
15The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?
17Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,
Genesis 7:18and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.
Job 15:32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
Psalms 55:23And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I — I do trust in Thee!
Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
Matthew 24:37and as the days of Noah — so shall be also the presence 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 →