Job 16:22

Verse 22 of 22. The 16th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 16:22 in the World English Bible

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Job's condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was.

Pray Job 16:22 with someone reading it aloud.

King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.