Job 22:16 They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.

English Standard Version
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

New American Standard Bible
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.

International Standard Version
who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?

American Standard Version
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Darby Bible Translation
Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;

Young's Literal Translation
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

Cross References

Matthew 7:26
And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house on the sand:

Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.

Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

Job 24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.

Psalm 90:5
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

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).