Job 22:16

Eliphaz's Third Speech

¹⁵ “Will you keep to the ancient path
Which wicked men have trod,
¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were washed away by a river?
¹⁷ “They said to God, ‘Depart from us!’
And ‘What can the Almighty do to them?’

Job

No

Job 15:32

“It will be accomplished before his time,
And his palm branch will not be green.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Genesis 7:17-24

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Matthew 24:37-39

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

1 Peter 3:19-20

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

2 Peter 2:5

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

Job 14:19

Water wears away stones,
Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;
So You destroy man’s hope.

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Psalm 102:24

I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days,
Your years are throughout all generations.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

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

Matthew 7:26-27

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.