Job 30:23

Job 30:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
• New International Version (NIV)I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Context of Job 30:23

21You have become harsh and cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me. 22You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it]; And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm. For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living. 24“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help? 25Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble? Was not my heart grieved for the needy?

Job 30:23 word by word

כִּֽי־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־חָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For I knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• thou wilt bringשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• deathמָ֫וֶתmâveth · deathH4194
• the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• appointedמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: time appointedH4150
• for all livingחַיchay · aliveH2416

Cross-references for Job 30:23

• Job 14:5Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You [in Your control], And You have made his limits so he cannot pass [his allotted time].
• Job 21:33The [dirt] clods of the valley are sweet to him [and gently cover him], Moreover, all men will follow after him [to a grave], While countless ones go before him.
• Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
• 2 Samuel 14:14For we will certainly die and are like water that is spilled on the ground and cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not [simply] take away life, but devises plans so that the one who is banished is not driven away from Him.
• Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind, Nor does he have authority over the day of death; There is no discharge [from service] during time of war, And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.
• Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they no longer have a reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.
• Ecclesiastes 12:5Furthermore, they are afraid of a high place and of dangers on the road; the almond tree (hair) blossoms [white], and the grasshopper (a little thing) is a burden, and the caperberry (desire, appetite) fails. For man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets and market places.
• Hebrews 9:27And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,

Commentaries on Job 30:23

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23Thou wilt bring me to death - This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I should survive it. To the house appointed for all living - Or to the house, מועד moed, the rendezvous, the place of general assembly of human beings: the great devourer in whose jaws all that have lived, now live, and shall live, must necessarily meet. " - O great man-eater! Whose every day is carnival; not sated yet! Unheard of epicure!…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death - This is the language of despair. Occasionally Job seems to have had an assurance that his calamities would pass by, and that God would show himself to be his friend on earth (compare the notes at Job 19:25), and at other times he utters the language of despair. Such would be commonly the case with a good man afflicted as he was, and agitated with alternate hopes and fears. We are not to set these expressions…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-31Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2316-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 30:23

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Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary