Job 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Cross References
Genesis 4:12From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Job 18:12His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
Job 30:3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Psalms 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
Proverbs 10:3The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 11:8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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 →