Job 22 · Verse 16

Job 22:16

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job 22:16, King James Version

Job 22:16 in other translations

BSBThey were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
WEBwho were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
ASVWho were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
YLTWho have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
DARBYWho were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
BBEWho were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
WebsterWho were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!

What does Job 22:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. cut down--rather, "fettered," as in Job 16:8; that is, arrested by death. out of time--prematurely, suddenly (Job 15:32; Ec 7:17); literally, "whose foundation was poured out (so as to become) a stream or flood." The solid earth passed from beneath their feet into a flood (Ge 7:11).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Whose foundation was overflown with a flood - The unrighteous in the days of Noah, who appear to have had an abundance of all temporal good, (Job 22:18), and who surpassed the deeds of all the former wicked, said in effect to God, Depart from us. And when Noah preached unto them the terrors of the Lord, and the necessity of repentance, they rejected his preaching with, What can the Almighty do for us? Let him do his worst; we care not for him, Job 22:17. For למו lamo, to Them, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic have evidently read לנו lanu, to Us. This reading quotes their own saying; the former reading narrates it in the third person. The meaning, however, is the same.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 22:15-20

Eliphaz would have Job mark the old way that wicked men have trodden, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, that we may not walk therein. But if others are consumed, and we are not, instead of blaming them, and lifting up ourselves, as Eliphaz does here, we ought to be thankful to God, and take it for a warning.

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Job 22:16 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.

אֲשֶֽׁר\־'a.Sher-whoH834
קֻמְּט֥וּku.me.Tuthey were snatched awayH7059
וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
עֵ֑ת'Etan appropriate timeH6256
נָ֝הָ֗רna.Hara riverH5104
יוּצַ֥קyu.Tzakit was poured outH3332
יְסוֹדָֽם\׃ye.so.Damfoundation theirH3247

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

Cross references for Job 22:16

  • Job 15:32

    It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

  • Genesis 7:17-24

    And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. …

  • Matthew 24:37-39

    But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

  • 2 Peter 2:5

    And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  • Psalms 55:23

    But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • 1 Peter 3:19-20

    By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

  • Genesis 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  • Psalms 102:24

    I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:17

    Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

  • Job 14:19

    The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

  • Matthew 7:26-27

    And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
cut down.
15:32; Ps 55:23; 102:24; Ec 7:17
whose foundation was overflown with a flood. Heb. a floodwas poured upon their foundation.
Ge 7:11,17-24; Mt 24:37-39; 1Pe 3:19,20; 2Pe 2:5

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Context

  • Job 22:15

    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

  • Job 22:16

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

  • Job 22:17

    Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

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Job 22:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Los cuales fueron cortados antes de tiempo, cuyo fundamento fué como un río derramado:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Qui ont été emportés avant le temps, et dont les fondements se sont écoulés comme un fleuve;
German
Elberfelder 1871		die weggerafft wurden vor der Zeit? wie ein Strom zerfloß ihr fester Grund;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		qui sublati sunt ante tempus suum, et fluvius subvertit fundamentum eorum?