Job 22:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 22:16 —

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Cross-References

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Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Genesis 7:17-24
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. …
1 Peter 3:19-20
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; …
2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Matthew 24:37-39
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. …

Topics

Antediluvians Deluge Flood

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-20)

Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world; as if he had said, “Thy condition is bad now, but, unless thou repent, it will be worse, as theirs was—theirs who were over…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. cut down--rather, “fettered,” as in Job 16:8; that is, arrested by death. out of time--prematurely, suddenly (Job 15:32; Ec 7:17); literally, “whose foundation was poured out (so as to become) a stream or flood.” The solid earth passed from beneath their feet into a flood (Ge 7:11).