Job 30:23
Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
22Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.
24Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
2 Samuel 14:14For we must needes dye, and we are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered vp againe: neither doeth God spare any person, yet doeth he appoynt meanes, not to cast out from him, him that is expelled.
Job 9:22This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
Job 14:5Are not his dayes determined? the nober of his moneths are with thee: thou hast appointed his boundes, which he can not passe.
Ecclesiastes 8:8Man is not lorde ouer the spirit to retaine the spirite: neither hath hee power in the day of death, nor deliuerance in the battell, neither shall wickednesse deliuer the possessers thereof.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
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 →