By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
Job 30:23 - Tree of Life Version For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I know that You will bring me to death and to the house [of meeting] appointed for all the living. American Standard Version (1901) For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. Common English Bible I know you will return me to death, the house appointed for all the living. Catholic Public Domain Version I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. |
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.
“Your hands molded and fashioned me, will You now destroy me completely?
Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, You have set his limits, which he cannot exceed.
The soil in the valley is sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless are those before him.
It is all the same, therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, even the memory of them is forgotten.
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,
“Now today I am about to go the way of all the earth. You will know with all your heart and with all your soul that not one word of the good things which Adonai your God spoke concerning you has failed to happen. All of them have come to pass for you; not one word has failed.