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Job 22:16 KJV
Job · chapter 22 · verse 16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:Job 22:16 · King James Version
Job 22:16 in context
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foundationyᵉçôwda foundationH3247 →
- overflownyâtsaqproperly, to pour outH3332 →
- timeʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-20