Job 15:23

Conservative English Version

They scrounge around for food, all the while dreading the approaching darkness.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.

Job 15:22

Darkness, despair, and death are their destiny.

Job 15:24

They are overcome with despair, like a terrified king about to go into battle.

Job 15:30

They won't escape the darkness, and the blazing breath of God will set their future aflame.

Job 18:12

Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,

Job 18:18

thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

Psalm 109:10

make his children beg for food and live in the slums.

Psalm 59:15

They search for scraps of food, and they snarl until they are stuffed.

Psalm 59:16

But I will sing about your strength, my God, and I will celebrate because of your love. You are my fortress, my place of protection in times of trouble.

Proverbs 10:3

If you obey the LORD, you won't go hungry; if you are wicked, God won't let you have what you want.

Proverbs 16:4

The LORD has a reason for everything he does, and he lets evil people live only to be punished.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Even if you live to a ripe old age, you should try to enjoy each day, because darkness will come and will last a long time. Nothing makes sense.

Lamentations 5:6

We had to surrender to Egypt and Assyria because we were hungry.

Lamentations 5:9

We are in danger from brutal desert tribes; we must risk our lives just to bring in our crops.

Joel 2:2

It will be dark and gloomy with storm clouds overhead. Troops will cover the mountains like thunderclouds. No army this powerful has ever been gathered before or will ever be again.

Amos 5:20

The day when the LORD judges will be dark, very dark, without a ray of light.

Zephaniah 1:15

It will be a time of anger-- of trouble and torment, of disaster and destruction, of darkness and despair, of storm clouds and shadows,

Hebrews 10:27

They are God's enemies, and all they can look forward to is a terrible judgment and a furious fire.