Job 22:16

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Summary

Job 22:16

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

Cut down

Whose foundation was overflown with a flood

General references

Genesis 7:21

Matthew 24:37

Bible References

Cut down

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days;
Your years are [eternal] throughout all generations.

Do not be excessively or willfully wicked and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

Whose foundation was overflown with a flood

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

For the coming of the Son of Man (the Messiah) will be just like the days of Noah.

in which He also went and preached to the spirits now in prison,

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought [the judgment of] a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

General references

All living beings that moved on the earth perished—birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.

For the coming of the Son of Man (the Messiah) will be just like the days of Noah.