Job 22:16

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men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:32 : 32 Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
  • Gen 7:17-24 : 17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 18 The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains. 21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. 24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
  • Matt 24:37-39 : 37 For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.
  • 1 Pet 3:19-20 : 19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • Gen 7:11 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  • Job 14:19 : 19 as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.
  • Ps 102:24 : 24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.
  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”

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