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Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?

Job 22:16

In 11 translations

BSB
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
KJV
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:whose…: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation
WEB
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
ASV
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
LSV
Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.
YLT
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
DBY
Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
DRC
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
GNV
Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
JPS
Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream;
LXXE
who were seized before their time: their foundations are as an overflowing stream.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם׃
LXX-Br
οἳ συνελήφθησαν ἄωροι; ποταμὸς ἐπιῤῥέων οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτῶν,

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  • Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
  • Genesis 7:17–24For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the…
  • Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  • Matthew 24:37–39As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And…
  • 1 Peter 3:19–20in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved…
  • Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
  • 2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
  • Matthew 7:26–27But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and…
  • Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
  • Psalms 102:24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
  • Job 14:19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

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