If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
Job 15:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He wanders about for food, asking, ‘Where is it? ’ He knows the day of darkness is at hand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword.
Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.
He will not escape from the darkness; flames will wither his shoots, and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.
He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.
The Lord will not let the righteous go hungry, but he denies the wicked what they crave.
The Lord has prepared everything for his purpose – even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Indeed, if someone lives for many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, since they will be many. All that comes is futile.
We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.
Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness,
but a terrifying expectation of judgement and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.