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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 an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones; (2 Peter 2:5)

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cut down.

Job 15:32• ³²Before his day it is fulfilled,{HR}And his branch is not green; (Job 15:32)

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Psa. 55:23• ²³And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of corruption:{HR}Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days.{HR}But for me, I will trust in thee. (Psa. 55:23)

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Psa. 102:24• ²⁴I said, O my God ,{HR}Take me not away in the midst of my days:{HR}In generation of generations [are] thy years. (Psa. 102:24)

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Eccl. 7:17• ¹⁷Be not overmuch wicked,{HR}Neither be thou foolish:{HR}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, and the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were broken up all the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bare 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 upon the face of the waters.
¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that [were] under all the heavens were covered.
²⁰Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
²¹And all flesh that moved upon the earth expired, bird and cattle and beast and all the creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all mankind:
²²all died which [had] breath of spirit of life, of all that [was] in dry [land].
²³And every living substance which [was] on the face of the ground from man to cattle and to reptile and to bird of the heavens; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only remained, and what [was] with him in the ark.
²⁴And the waters prevailed upon 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 Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man;
³⁸for as in those days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
³⁹and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. (Matt. 24:37‑39)

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1 Peter 3:19‑20• ¹⁹in [virtue of] which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
²⁰disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:19‑20)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones; (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;

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

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Or "has flowed away like."

W. Kelly Translation

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Who were snatched away untimely:{HR}A flood was poured on their foundation;