Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
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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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.
The Emphasized Bible
When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
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 crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor. 22 For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
Cross References
Job 14:10
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
Job 7:9-10
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.
Job 14:5
Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.
Job 14:14
If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.