The Pulpit Commentary on Job 16:22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

When a few years are come; literally, a number of years, which generally means a small number. I shall go the way whence I shall not return. This verse would more fitly begin the following chapter, which opens in a similar strain, with an anticipation of the near approach of death

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