Job 16:22 {23}
Good News Translation
My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.

New Revised Standard Version
For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Contemporary English Version
Because in only a few years, I will be dead and gone.

New American Bible
For my years are numbered, and I go the road of no return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

a few years.

Job 14:5,14 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. . . .

whence

Job 7:9,10 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. . . .

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
21And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! 22For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 10:21
Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 16:21
And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 16:21
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