Job 15:23

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; 1 And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: 1 And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

22Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, 1 For he has been already made over to the power of the sword. 1

24Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: 1 He shall fall as a captain in the first rank. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.

Job 18:12Vex him with distressing hunger: 1 And a signal destruction has been prepared for him. 1

Job 30:3One is childless in want and famine, 1 Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. 1

Proverbs 10:3The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: 1 But he will overthrow the life of the ungodly. 1

Ecclesiastes 11:8For even if a man should live many years, 1 And rejoice in them all; 1 Yet let him remember the days of darkness; 1 For they shall be many. 1 All that comes is vanity. 1

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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