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Job 16:22

Job 16:22 is verse 22 of Job chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

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King James Version

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.

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Job 16:20–22 · Berean Standard Bible

20 My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

21 Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

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Hebrew words

כִּֽיfor שְׁנ֣וֹתyears of מִסְפָּ֣רnumber יֶאֱתָ֑יוּthey will come וְאֹ֖רַחand a way לֹא[which] not אָשׁ֣וּבI will return אֶהֱלֹֽךְI will go

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 14:5
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

Job 14:14
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Job 7:9
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Job 7:10
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:5
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

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