Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
New American Standard Bible
Whose
King James Version
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Holman Bible
and their foundations
International Standard Version
who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?
A Conservative Version
Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
American Standard Version
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Amplified
Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Darby Translation
Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
Julia Smith Translation
Who were laid hold of, and no time a river will pour out their foundation?
King James 2000
Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:
Lexham Expanded Bible
who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?
Modern King James verseion
They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which were cut down out of time, and whose foundation was as a running water,
NET Bible
men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
New Heart English Bible
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
The Emphasized Bible
Who were snatched away before the time, and, a stream, washed away their foundation?
Webster
Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!
World English Bible
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Youngs Literal Translation
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Themes
Antediluvians » Destruction of
the Deluge » Traditional notice of
Interlinear
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 22:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Third Speech
15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went? 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters: 17 Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?
Cross References
Job 15:32
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
Genesis 7:17-24
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
Matthew 24:37-39
And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.
1 Peter 3:19-20
By whom he went to the spirits in prison, preaching to those
2 Peter 2:5
And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;
Job 14:19
The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
Matthew 7:26-27
And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;