16:21-22 Need for a mediator -
21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,
As a man pleads for his neighbor!
22 For when a few years are finished,
I shall go the way of no return.
In this section, we see two interesting points - 1. The desperate need for a mediator, someone to go between God and man. If only Job could have seen the Mediator yet to come! 2. A really bleak view of the afterlife.
The New King James Version. (1982). (Job 16:21–22). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
Just a few chapters later, in 19:25-27, we see a much more optimistic view of what comes after death.
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