Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job 22:16 belongs to Eliphaz's speech within the extended colloquies between Job and his three friends in Job 3-31 concerning the cause and object of human suffering. Those colloquies present their own wisdom and observation about suffering. Eliphaz's statements about Job and about God in that setting are not reliable where they contradict inspired teaching.
The verse portrays the wicked as destroyed before their time, cut down out of time. Their foundation is swept away by a flood, overflown with a flood.
The fact that the speech stands in inspired Scripture establishes that the friends actually spoke these words, not that what they spoke is true in itself or true in its application. For that reason the verse is not to be taken by itself as a true account of Job, nor as sound teaching without support elsewhere in Scripture. What the friends asserted holds generally true that evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. It was misapplied in Job's case, since adversity, affliction, or suffering coming upon a person does not prove that person is under the displeasure of God.
Job 22:16 belongs to Eliphaz's speech within the extended colloquies between Job and his three friends in Job 3-31 concerning the cause and object of human suffering. Those colloquies present their own wisdom and observation about suffering. Eliphaz's statements about Job and about God in that setting are not reliable where they contradict inspired teaching.
The verse portrays the wicked as destroyed before their time, cut down out of time. Their foundation is swept away by a flood, overflown with a flood.
The fact that the speech stands in inspired Scripture establishes that the friends actually spoke these words, not that what they spoke is true in itself or true in its application. For that reason the verse is not to be taken by itself as a true account of Job, nor as sound teaching without support elsewhere in Scripture. What the friends asserted holds generally true that evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. It was misapplied in Job's case, since adversity, affliction, or suffering coming upon a person does not prove that person is under the displeasure of God.