Job 22:16

Eliphaz recalls how such wicked men were swept away before their time, their security washed out like a flood. He cites their ruin as a warning to Job.

Cross-references · 11

• Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
• Gen 7:17–24For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
• 1 Pet 3:19–20in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
• Gen 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• 2 Pet 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
• Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
• Matt 24:37–39As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
• Ps 102:24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
• Job 14:19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
• Matt 7:26–27But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
• Eccl 7:17Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

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