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Job 22:16 — King James Version← Study notes

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:


Job 22:16Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 22:167 words
HebrewMeaning
אֲשֶֽׁרʾăšer
whoparticleH834
after · alike · because · every ···
קֻמְּט֥וּquməṭw
they were snatched awayverbH7059
fill with wrinkles
וְ/לֹאwəlōʾ
and notconjH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
עֵ֑תʿēt
an appropriate timenounH6256
after · certain · continually · evening ···
נָ֝הָ֗רnāhār
a rivernounH5104
river
יוּצַ֥קywṣaq
it was poured outverbH3332
cleave fast · be firm · grow · be hard ···
יְסוֹדָֽ/םyəswōdām
foundation theirnounH3247
foundation · repairing
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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us in the foreknowledge of God, it is a very important question on what principle it is said now, that the wicked are withdrawn from the present world ‘before their time.’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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §15
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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