Job 16:22
Job 16:22 Meaning and Explanation
“When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.”
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Read Full Chapter →Job knows his remaining years are few before he goes the way of no return.
What Does Job 16:22 Mean?
Job closes this speech with a sober reckoning of his mortality. Only a few years remain, and then he will walk the path from which no traveler comes back. Death presses close upon his thoughts.
Yet even this somber word sits beside the hope he has just voiced of a witness in heaven. The frailty of life makes the longing for an advocate all the more urgent. For those in Christ, the way that seemed to allow no return has been opened anew by the One who walked into death and came back, the firstfruits of resurrection.
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What does Job 16:22 mean?
Job knows his remaining years are few before he goes the way of no return.