他們死期未到便已夭逝，他們的根基被洪濤捲走。

他们未到死期，忽然除灭；根基毁坏，好像被江河冲去。

他们未到时候就被抓去；他们的根基被江河冲去。

他们未到时候就被抓去；他们的根基被江河冲去。

他们死期未到便已夭逝，他们的根基被洪涛卷走。

他们未到时候，就被抓去，他们的根基被洪水冲去。

他們未到死期，忽然除滅；根基毀壞，好像被江河沖去。

他們未到時候就被抓去；他們的根基被江河沖去。

他們未到時候就被抓去；他們的根基被江河沖去。

他們未到時候，就被抓去，他們的根基被洪水沖去。

他們未到死期就被攫去；他們的根基被沖瀉如河流：

彼未及期而見奪、其基被衝若溪流、

不期大河忽決、而惡人與室廬悉遭淹沒。

彼未及期而見除、洪水沖沒其基、

They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.

They were carried off even before they died. Their foundations were washed away by a flood.

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

在他離世以前，虛空必臨到他，他的枝子再不會青綠。

人子降臨時的情形就像挪亞的時代。洪水來臨之前，人們吃吃喝喝，男婚女嫁，一直到挪亞進方舟那天；他們懵然不知，直到洪水來把他們全沖走了。人子降臨時的情形也是這樣。

洪水在地上氾濫了四十天，水不斷地往上漲，把方舟漂了起來。洪水來勢洶洶，淹沒大地，方舟漂浮在水面上。水勢越來越大，把天下各處的高山都淹沒了。水淹沒了群山，水面高出群山七米。世上所有的飛禽、走獸、牲畜、爬蟲和人類都死了。在陸地上所有用鼻孔呼吸的生靈都死了。地上的人類、飛禽走獸和爬蟲等一切生靈都被毀滅了，只剩下挪亞和跟他同在方舟裡的生靈。洪水淹沒大地一百五十天。

祂還藉著聖靈向那些監獄中的靈魂傳道，他們就是從前在挪亞造方舟、上帝耐心等候人們悔改的時代中那些不肯信的人。當時進入方舟，從洪水中得救的人很少，只有八個人。

上帝也沒有容忍遠古的世代，曾用洪水淹滅了世上不敬虔的惡人，只留下傳講上帝公義的挪亞和他的七位家人。

挪亞六百歲那年的二月十七日，所有深淵的泉源都裂開了，天上的水閘也打開了，

我說：「我的上帝啊，你世代長存，求你不要叫我中年早逝。

上帝啊，你必把惡人送進滅亡的坑裡。嗜血成性的騙子必早早夭亡。但我要信靠你。

凡聽了我這些話不去行的，就像愚昧人把房子建在沙土上。遇到風吹雨打、洪水沖擊，房子就倒塌了，而且倒塌得很厲害。」

不要過分邪惡，也不要做愚人，何必時候未到就死呢？

流水磨損石頭，急流沖走泥土；你也這樣粉碎人的希望。