When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
Ver. 22. When a few years are come, &c.] Heb. Years of number; that is, years that may easily be counted and cast up. The years of the longest liver are but few, they may be quickly numbered. This ran much in Job's mind, and made him very desirous to be cleared before he died, that he might not go out of the world in a snuff.
Then shall I go the way] That way of all flesh, 1 Kings 2:2, which Job feareth not to do, as knowing whom he had trusted, and that death should be unto him the daybreak of eternal brightness.
Whence I shall not return] See Job 7:9,10; Job 10:21, with the notes.