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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 upon the earth. (Gen. 7:10)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing 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 accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. (Job 15:32)

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Psa. 55:23• ²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. (Psa. 55:23)

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Psa. 102:24• ²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. (Psa. 102:24)

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Eccl. 7:17• ¹⁷Be not over much 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, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
¹⁸And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
²⁰Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
²¹And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
²²All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
²³And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. (Gen. 7:11,17‑24)

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

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1 Peter 3:19‑20• ¹⁹By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
²⁰Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (1 Peter 3:19‑20)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing 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."