Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
World English Bible Catholic
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 to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
24“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
2 Samuel 14:14For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 9:22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
Ecclesiastes 12:5yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about 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 →