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Job 22:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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or, a flood was poured upon their foundation,

Gen. 7:10• ¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. (Gen. 7:10)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2 Peter 2:5)

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cut down.

Job 15:32• ³²It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green. (Job 15:32)

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Psa. 55:23• ²³And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee. (Psa. 55:23)

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Psa. 102:24• ²⁴I said, My *God, take me not away in the midst of my days! … Thy years are from generation to generation. (Psa. 102:24)

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Eccl. 7:17• ¹⁷Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? (Eccl. 7:17)

whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

Heb. a floodwas poured upon their foundation.

Gen. 7:11,17‑24• ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
¹⁷And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.
¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.
¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
²⁰Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.
²¹And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:
²²everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
²³And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.
²⁴And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days. (Gen. 7:11,17‑24)

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Matt. 24:37‑39• ³⁷But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.
³⁸For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,
³⁹and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man. (Matt. 24:37‑39)

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1 Peter 3:19‑20• ¹⁹in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison,
²⁰heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: (1 Peter 3:19‑20)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2 Peter 2:5)

• Eliphaz depicts their temporal prosperity and the inevitable judgment which overtakes them. Like the grass which groweth up only to be cut down and withered, they perished before their time. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

• Their apparently solid foundations were swept away by a flood (or, perhaps more accurately, turned into a flood). there may be a reference to the days of Noah. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Who were carried offd before the time, whose foundation was overflowed withe a flood;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "huddled away," as by the rising flood.

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Or "has flowed away like."