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Job Chapter 16 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV Job 16:22

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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BBE Job 16:22

For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
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DARBY Job 16:22

For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
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KJV Job 16:22

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

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

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
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YLT Job 16:22

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - When a few years are come; literally, a number of years, which generally means a small number. I shall go the way whence I shall not return. This verse would more fitly begin the following chapter, which opens in a similar strain, with an anticipation of the near approach of death

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) When a few years are come.--Literally, years of number, which means either "years than can be easily numbered," as men of number (Genesis 34:20) is used to express few men; or "years that are numbered," that is, allotted, determined. It is strange to find Job speaking, in his condition, of years, but so, for that matter, is it to find a man so sorely tormented as he was indulging in so long an argument. Perhaps this shows us that the narrative of Job is intended to be an ideal only, setting forth the low estate of sin-stricken humanity: this is only thrown out as a suggestion, no weight is assigned to it more than it may chance to claim. Perhaps, however, these words are spoken by Job in contemplation of his condition as a dying man, even had he not been so afflicted.