New Revised Standard Version
For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Contemporary English Version
Because in only a few years, I will be dead and gone.

New American Bible
For my years are numbered, and I go the road of no return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

a few years.

Job 14:5,14 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. . . .

whence

Job 7:9,10 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. . . .

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.