"For when a few years have come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return." Job concludes the chapter by acknowledging that time is running out. Death approaches, and with it, the final closure of the case. The verse suggests urgency: if vindication is to come, it must come soon, before death makes further dialogue impossible. Chapter 16 ends with Job suspended between appeal and despair.

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