“Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:”
"Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was washed away by a flood." The wicked are swept away by floods—sudden destruction. The verse suggests that Job, if he persists in wickedness, will follow their fate.
Church Fathers on Job 22:16
Which were taken away before their time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood. 14. Whereas the period of our life is assuredly foreordained for us in the foreknowledge of God, it is a very important question on what principle it is said now, that the wicked are withdrawn from the present world ‘before their time.’ For Almighty God though He often change His sentence, yet His counsel never. At that time, then, is every man ‘taken away’ from this life, at which by Divine…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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