Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

American Standard 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 liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

24Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto 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 split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, 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 goeth to his everlasting 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 →

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