Job 16:22
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
BSB
ASV
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
KJV
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
When a few years are come - I prefer Mr. Good’s version: - “But the years numbered to me are come. And I must go the way whence I shall not return.” Job could not, in his present circumstances, expect a few years of longer life; from his own conviction he was expecting death every hour. The next verse, the first of the following chapter, should come in here: My breath is corrupt, etc. - He felt himself as in the arms of death: he saw the grave as already digged which was to receive his dead body.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
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“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Through
Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
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Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?