Job 22:16 “They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were…”

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

World English Bible

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

American Standard Version

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Geneva Bible 1599

Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

Darby Translation

Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;

Young's Literal Translation

Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

Bible in Basic English

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

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Cross references

“cut down”

Job 15:32 Psalm 55:23 Psalm 102:24 Ecclesiastes 7:17

Job 15:32 · BSB

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalm 102:24 · BSB

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

Ecclesiastes 7:17 · BSB

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

“whose foundation was overflown with a flood”

Genesis 7:17–24 Genesis 7:11 Matthew 24:37–39 2 Peter 2:5 1 Peter 3:19 1 Peter 3:20

Genesis 7:17–24 · BSB

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:11 · BSB

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Matthew 24:37–39 · BSB

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

2 Peter 2:5 · BSB

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

1 Peter 3:19 · BSB

in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

1 Peter 3:20 · BSB

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

Also

Job 14:19 Matthew 7:26–27

Job 14:19 · BSB

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

Matthew 7:26–27 · BSB

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

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

In context

15Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

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