Job 30:23
For I have known You bring me back [to] death, || And [to] the house appointed for all living.
Literal 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
22You lift me up, || You cause me to ride on the wind, || And You melt—You level me.
24Surely not against the heap || Does He send forth the hand, || Though they have safety in its ruin.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”
2 Samuel 14:14for we surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God does not accept a person, and has devised plans in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, || He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
Job 14:5If his days are determined, || The number of his months [are] with You, || You have made his limit, || And he does not pass over;
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, || And of the low places in the way, || And the almond-tree is despised, || And the grasshopper has become a burden, || And want is increased, || For man is going to his perpetual home, || And the mourners have gone around through the street.
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 →