Job 15:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Common English Bible

²³ They wander about for bread. “Where is it?” They know that their day of darkness is fixed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand.

Job 15:23 Cross References

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Job 15:22

He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.

Job 15:24

distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.

Job 15:30

he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Job 18:12

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Psalm 109:10

May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

Psalm 59:15

They roam about for food, and growl if they do not get their fill.

Psalm 59:16

But I will sing of thy might; I will sing aloud of thy steadfast love in the morning. For thou hast been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Proverbs 10:3

The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Amos 5:20

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

Zephaniah 1:15

A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Hebrews 10:27

but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.