Job 16:22

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.a few…: Heb. years of number

WEB

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

ASV

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

LSV

When a few years come, || Then I go [on] the path of no return.”

YLT

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

DBY

For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

DRC16:23

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

GNV

For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.

JPS

For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

LXXE

But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

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WLC

כִּֽי־שְׁנ֣וֹת מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְאֹ֖רַח לֹא־אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ׃

LXX-Br

Ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ ἥκασιν, ὁδῷ δὲ ᾗ οὐκ ἐπαναστραφήσομαι, πορεύσομαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
• Job 7:9–10As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
• Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
• Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• Ecclesiastes 12:5when 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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