Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
Darby Translation
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 liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
24Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job 14:5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
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 →