Job 30:23
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Majority Standard Bible
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 snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
24Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
2 Samuel 14:14For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk 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 →