The Meaning of Job 16:22 Explained

Job 16:22

KJV: When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

YLT: When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

Darby: For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

ASV: For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Discover Job 16:22

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 16:22?

MEANING: What does Job 16:22 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 16:22 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 16:22?

What is the context of Job 16:22?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

What does Job 16:22 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 16:1-22 - Turning From "miserable Comforters" Unto God

With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his, instead of joining words together and evincing the pride of the immaculate, he would set himself to speak strengthening words and to assuage their grief by tender sympathy.

He compares his pains to the attack of a wild beast, Job 16:7-14; and from this he proceeds to describe the anguish of his grief, Job 16:15-20. But toward the end of the chapter a new thought begins to shape itself; and from his lowest despair he catches sight of a Vindicator and a vindication that must someday be his. Job 16:21 should be read as in the r.v., margin. Job wanted a son of man to plead for him; and his prayer has been more than answered in the Son of man, who pleads for us "not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life," Hebrews 7:16. "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul," Lamentations 3:58. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 16

¹ Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
¹⁷ He maintains his innocence

What do the individual words in Job 16:22 mean?

for when years a few are finished and the way of no return I shall go

כִּֽי־ שְׁנ֣וֹת מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְאֹ֖רַח לֹא־ אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ

כִּֽי־	for when
Parse: Conjunction Root: כִּי Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
שְׁנ֣וֹת	years
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct Root: שָׁנָה Sense: year.
מִסְפָּ֣ר	a few
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: מִסְפָּר Sense: number, tale.
יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ	are finished
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: אָתָה Sense: to come, arrive.
וְאֹ֖רַח	and the way
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, common singular Root: אֹרַח Sense: way, path.
לֹא־	of no
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle Root: הֲלֹא Sense: not, no.
אָשׁ֣וּב	return
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular Root: שׁוּב Sense: to return, turn back.
אֶהֱלֹֽךְ	I shall go
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular Root: הָלַךְ Sense: to go, walk, come.

What are the major concepts related to Job 16:22?

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