Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 22:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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Role in This Section
Job 22:16 advances the thought unit with the words “Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.” Eliphaz states “Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood” as one poetic claim in Eliphaz Invokes the Ancient Path of the Wicked.
Read It With
- Job 22:15–22:20
Read Job 22:16 with 22:15–22:20. Read alone, “Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Eliphaz describes people swept away before their time despite secure homes and identifies the righteous as rejoicing at their destruction.
Why It Needs Context
Job 22:16 depends on 22:15–22:20; isolating “Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Eliphaz and “Eliphaz Invokes the Ancient Path of the Wicked.”
Read Job 22:15–20 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 22:15–22:20 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Eliphaz Invokes the Ancient Path of the Wicked.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 15. 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Verse 16. 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Verse 17. 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Verse 18. 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Verse 19. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Verse 20. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 22:15–22:20 — Eliphaz Invokes the Ancient Path of the WickedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 22:15–22:20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 22:15–22:20
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