Job 15:23
He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
Cross References
Genesis 4:12when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee — a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
Job 18:12Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
Job 30:3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
Psalms 59:16And I — I sing [of] Thy strength, And I sing at morn [of] Thy kindness, For thou hast been a tower to me, And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.
Proverbs 10:3Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.
Ecclesiastes 11:8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming [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 →