Job 16:22
Modern Translations
New International Version
"Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.

New Living Translation
For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return.

English Standard Version
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Berean Study Bible
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

New American Standard Bible
“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

NASB 1995
"For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

NASB 1977
“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

Amplified Bible
“For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

Christian Standard Bible
For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For only a few years will pass before I go the way of no return.

Contemporary English Version
Because in only a few years, I will be dead and gone.

Good News Translation
My years are passing now, and I walk the road of no return.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.

International Standard Version
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."

NET Bible
For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

New King James Version
For when a few years are finished, I shall go the way of no return.

King James 2000 Bible
When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

New Heart English Bible
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

World English Bible
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

American King James Version
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

American Standard Version
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

A Faithful Version
Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return."

Darby Bible Translation
For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

English Revised Version
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Webster's Bible Translation
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yet the number of my yeres is come, and the way that I must go is at hand, from whence I shall not turne againe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
yet the nombre of my yeares are come, & I must go the waye, from whence I shal not turne agayne.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When a few years come, "" Then I go [on] the path of no return.”

Young's Literal Translation
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

Smith's Literal Translation
When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which l shall not return.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For behold, a few years pass by, and I am walking a path by which I will not return.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
For the number of his years are coming, and he goes the way without return!

Lamsa Bible
For the number of a man's years will come to an end; then he shall go the way from whence he shall not return.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For the years that are few are coming on, And I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
















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