Job 15:23
A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
22He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;
24Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:
Cross References
Genesis 4:12Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.
Job 18:12Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
Job 30:3In want and hunger, they were lean,—who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!
Psalms 59:16But, I, will sing thy power, And will shout aloud, in the morning, thy lovingkindness,—For thou has become a refuge for me, And a place to flee to in the day of my distress.
Proverbs 10:3Yahweh, suffereth not to famish, the soul of the righteous, but, the desire of the lawless, he thrusteth away.
Ecclesiastes 11:8But, though, many years, a man live, through them all, let him rejoice; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for many they may be, all that cometh, may be 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 →