“When a few yeeres are come, then I shall goe the way whence I shall not returne.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
- King James Version
"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
- Basic English Bible
For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
- Darby Bible
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Webster's Bible
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.
- World English Bible
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
- Youngs Literal Bible
For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 16:22
16:22 Go - To the state and place of the dead, whence men cannot return to this life. The meaning is, my death hastens, and therefore I earnestly desire that the cause depending, between me and my friends, may be determined, that if I be guilty of these things, I may bear the shame of it before all men, and if I be innocent, that I may see my own integrity, and the credit of religion, (which suffers upon this occasion) vindicated. How very certainly, and how very shortly are we likewise to go this journey.