Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
Cross References
Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.
Job 18:12His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Job 30:3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
Psalms 59:16But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.
Proverbs 10:3Jehovah suffereth not the soul of the righteous [man] to famish; but he repelleth the craving of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 11:8but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is 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 →