Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not 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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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.
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 and it argues for a mortal with God, and [as] {a human} for his friend. 22 Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.
Cross References
Job 14:10
"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?
Job 7:9-10
A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.
Job 14:5
If his days [are] determined, the number of his months [is] with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross [them].
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
They are afraid of heights, and terrors [are] on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets.