Job 15:23

When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand.

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In The King James Version

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

In Context

22He does not believe that it is possible for him to be turned from darkness into the light, for he sees around him the sword on every side.

24Tribulation will terrify him, and anguish will prevail over him, like a king who is being prepared to go to battle.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.”

Job 18:12Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

Job 30:3They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.

Proverbs 10:3The Lord will not afflict with famine the soul of the just, and he will overthrow the treacheries of the impious.

Ecclesiastes 11:8If a man lives for many years, and if he has rejoiced in all of these, he must remember the many days of the dark times, which, when they will have arrived, will accuse the past of vanity.

Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35

17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →

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