Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return. New Living Translation For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return. English Standard Version For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. Berean Standard Bible For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. King James Bible When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. New King James Version For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return. New American Standard Bible “For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. NASB 1995 “For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. NASB 1977 “For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. Legacy Standard Bible For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. Amplified Bible “For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return. Christian Standard Bible For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return. Holman Christian Standard Bible For only a few years will pass before I 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For the number of his years are coming, and he goes the way without return! Brenton Septuagint Translation But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return. Contemporary English Version Because in only a few years, I will be dead and gone. Douay-Rheims Bible For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return. English Revised Version For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. GOD'S WORD® Translation because in a few short years I will take the path of no return. Good News Translation My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return. International Standard Version For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return." JPS Tanakh 1917 For the years that are few are coming on, And I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Literal Standard Version When a few years come, | Then I go [on] the path of no return.” Majority Standard Bible For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. New American Bible For my years are numbered, and I go the road of no return. NET Bible For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return. New Revised Standard Version For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return. New Heart English Bible For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from where I shall not return. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Decries his Comforters…21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! 22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. Cross References Job 3:13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest Job 10:21 before I go--never to return--to a land of darkness and gloom, Job 16:21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! Treasury of Scripture When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return. a few years. Job 14:5,14 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; … whence 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… Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 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: Jump to Previous Few Journey Past Path Short Time Way WhenceJump to Next Few Journey Past Path Short Time Way WhenceJob 16 1. Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness17. He maintains his innocence (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. Verse 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 |
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