Job 16:22

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For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

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  • Job 14:10 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he?
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 They are also afraid of heights and dangers along the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, for the man is going to his eternal home, and mourners walk around in the streets.
  • Job 7:9-9 : 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.
  • Job 14:5 : 5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and set limits they cannot exceed.

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  • Job 10:20-21
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    20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

    21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

  • 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • Isa 38:10-12
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    10 I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

    11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."

    12 My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.

  • Job 7:6-11
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    74%

    6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

    7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.

    8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.

    9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

    10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.

    11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 23:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    8 But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I cannot perceive him.

  • 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
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    26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.

    27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

  • Job 13:19-20
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    19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

    20 Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

  • 13 Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

  • 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

    15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • 11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 6:10-11
    2 verses
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    10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11 What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • 7 I thought, ‘Age should speak; let many years teach wisdom.’

  • 2 Isaac said, 'See now, I have grown old, and I do not know the day of my death.'

  • 32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • 22 Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.

  • 3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.

  • 15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • 6 Even if someone lives a thousand years twice over but does not enjoy their prosperity, do not all go to the same place?

  • 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • 22 For I do not know how to flatter; otherwise, my Maker would take me away swiftly.

  • 18 I said, 'I will die with my nest, and my days will be as numerous as the sand.'

  • 6 So look away from them and let them rest, till they have enjoyed their time like a hired worker.

  • 2 Wait a little longer for me, and I will show you that there is still more to say on God's behalf.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 32 'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

  • 29 'If you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to the grave in sorrow.'