Job 30:23
For I know that death will destroy me: 1 For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
22And thou hast put me to grief, 1 And hast cast me away from safety. 1
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.
2 Samuel 14:14For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.
Job 9:22Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man. 1
Job 14:5If even his life should be but one day upon the earth: 1 And his months are numbered by him: 1 Thou hast appointed him for a time, and he shall by no means exceed it. 1
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that has power over the spirit 1 To retain the spirit; 1 And there is no power in the day of death: 1 And there is no discharge in the day of battle; 1 Neither shall ungodliness save her votary. 1
Ecclesiastes 12:5And they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, 1 And the almond tree shall blossom, 1 And the locust shall increase, 1 And the caper shall be scattered: 1 Because man has gone to his eternal home, 1 And the mourners have gone about the market: 1
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 →