“If you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Job 15:23 - The Scriptures 2009 He wanders about for food – where is it? He knows that a day of darkness is prepared for him. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He wanders abroad for food, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already close upon him. American Standard Version (1901) He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Common English Bible They wander about for bread. “Where is it?” They know that their day of darkness is fixed. Catholic Public Domain Version When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
“If you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
He believes not to return from darkness, and he is reserved for the sword.
Distress and pain frighten him – they overwhelm him, like a sovereign ready for the attack.
He does not turn away from darkness. The flame dries up his branches, and he turns aside by the breath of His mouth.
They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.
And let his children always wander and beg, And seek food out of their ruins.
They wander up and down for food, And whine if they are not satisfied.
And I, I sing of Your power; And in the morning I sing aloud of Your loving-commitment; For You have been my strong tower And a refuge in the day of my distress.
יהוה does not let the being of the righteous go hungry, But He thrusts away the desire of the wrong.
יהוה has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil.
But if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they are many. All that is coming is futility.
To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations.
Is not the day of יהוה darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and trouble, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.