KJV King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
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Job 16:22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
WEB World English Bible
For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.
ASV American Standard Version
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
Surrounding context — Job 16
19 Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
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Job 14:10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?Job 7:9-10[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].Job 14:5Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Ecclesiastes 12:5Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
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