Job 16 · Verse 22

Job 16:22

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 16:22, King James Version

Job 16:22 in other translations

BSBFor when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
WEBFor when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
ASVFor when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
YLTWhen a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
DARBYFor years few in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
BBEFor in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
WebsterWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

What does Job 16:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. few--literally, "years of number," that is, few, opposed to numberless (Ge 34:30).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 When a few years are come - I prefer Mr. Good's version: - "But the years numbered to me are come. And I must go the way whence I shall not return." Job could not, in his present circumstances, expect a few years of longer life; from his own conviction he was expecting death every hour. The next verse, the first of the following chapter, should come in here: My breath is corrupt, etc. - He felt himself as in the arms of death: he saw the grave as already digged which was to receive his dead body. This verse shows that our translation of the twenty-second verse is improper, and vindicates Mr. Good's version. I Have said on Job 16:9 that a part of Job's sufferings probably arose from appalling representations made to his eye or to his imagination by Satan and his agents. I think this neither irrational nor improbable. That he and his demons have power to make themselves manifest on especial occasions, has been credited in all ages of the world; not by the weak, credulous, and superstitious only, but also by the wisest, the most learned, and the best of men. I am persuaded that many passages in the Book of Job refer to this, and admit of an easy interpretation on this ground.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:17-22

Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took…

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Job 16:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
שְׁנ֣וֹתshe.Notyears ofH8141
מִסְפָּ֣רmis.ParnumberH4557
יֶאֱתָ֑יוּye.'e.Ta.yuthey will comeH857
וְאֹ֖רַחve.'O.rachand a wayH734
לֹא\־lo'-[which] notH3808
אָשׁ֣וּב'a.ShuvI will returnH7725
אֶהֱלֹֽךְ\׃'e.he.LokhI will goH1980

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 16:22

  • Job 14:10

    But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Job 14:14

    If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Job 7:9-10

    As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 14:5

    Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Ecclesiastes 12:5

    Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a few years. Heb. years of number.
14:5,14
whence.
7:9,10; 14:10; Ec 12:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 16:21

    O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

  • Job 16:22

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

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Job 16:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas los años contados vendrán, y yo iré el camino por donde no volveré.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car les années s’écoulent dont on peut compter le nombre, et je m’en vais dans le chemin d’où je ne reviendrai pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn die zählbaren Jahre gehen vorüber, und ich werde einen Weg dahingehen, auf dem ich nicht wiederkehren werde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.