Job 16:22 “For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.”

Job 16:22

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

World English Bible

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

American Standard Version

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.

Darby Translation

For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

Young's Literal Translation

When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

Bible in Basic English

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

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Cross references

“a few years”

Job 14:5 Job 14:14

Job 14:5 · BSB

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

Job 14:14 · BSB

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

“whence”

Job 14:10 Ecclesiastes 12:5 Job 7:9 Job 7:10

Job 14:10 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:5 · BSB

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Job 7:9 · BSB

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Job 7:10 · BSB

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

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