Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
In Context
22Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
24However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
2 Samuel 14:14For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 9:22It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →