Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
New American Standard Bible
I shall go the way
King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Holman Bible
before I go the way of no return.
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International Standard Version
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
A Conservative Version
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
American Standard Version
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Amplified
“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.
Bible in Basic English
For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
Darby Translation
For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Julia Smith Translation
When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back
King James 2000
When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.
Modern King James verseion
For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yet the number of my years are come - and I must go the way from whence I shall not turn again.
NET Bible
For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
New Heart English Bible
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.
Webster
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
World English Bible
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
Youngs Literal Translation
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
Themes
death » Miscellaneous subjects » Going the way whence there is no return
natural Death » Described as » Going the way whence there is no return
Interlinear
Micpar
Shaneh (in pl. only),
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Everything Was Going Well
21 That one might plead, for a man, with GOD, - Even a son of man, for his friend! 22 When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
Cross References
Job 14:10
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Job 7:9-10
A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
Job 14:5
If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.
Job 14:14
If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish, - for man is going to his age-abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets;