Job 30:23
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
Young's Literal Translation
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 dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.
24Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust thou turnest back.'
2 Samuel 14:14for we do surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Job 14:5If determined are his days, The number of his months [are] with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.
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 →