Job 15:23

When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

24Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Job 18:12Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

Job 30:3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

Psalms 59:16They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Proverbs 10:3The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 11:8If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused 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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