Christian Standard Bible
Job 15:23
23He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it?” He knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Job 15:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- New International Version (NIV)He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Context of Job 15:23
21Dreadful sounds fill his ears; when he is at peace, a robber attacks him. 22He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword. He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it?” He knows the day of darkness is at hand. 24Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle. 25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.
Read all of Job 15Job 15:23 word by word
נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַלֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה יָדַ֓ע׀ כִּֽי־נָכ֖וֹן בְּיָד֣וֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:23
- Job 30:3Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.
- Genesis 4:12If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
- Psalms 59:15They scavenge for food; they growl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalms 109:10Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.
- Lamentations 5:6We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.
- Job 18:5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8Indeed, if someone lives 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.
- Joel 2:2a 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.
- Amos 5:20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?
- Zephaniah 1:15That 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,
- Hebrews 10:27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.
Commentaries on Job 15:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23He wandereth abroad for bread - He is reduced to a state of the utmost indigence, he who was once in affluence requires a morsel of bread, and can scarcely by begging procure enough to sustain life. Is ready at his hand - Is בידו beyado, in his hand - in his possession. As he cannot get bread, he must soon meet death.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23He wandereth abroad for bread - The Septuagint renders this, “he is destined to be food for vultures” - ́ ̀ ̓ ͂ ́ katatetaktai de eis sitos gupsin The meaning of the Hebrew is, simply, that he will be reduced to poverty, and will not know where to obtain a supply for his returning needs. He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand - He is assured that the period of calamity is not far remote. It must come. He has no security that it will not…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-35Verses 17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23Like evil people, Job may have experienced hunger. Or, following the ancient Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), the Berean Standard Bible says Job "wanders about as food for vultures.” This would be similar to being “marked for the sword” (15:22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in Old Testament depicts sore need (Is 5:13). Contrast the pious man's lot (Job 5:20-22). knoweth--has the firm conviction. Contrast the same word applied to the pious (Job 5:24, 25). ready at his hand--an Arabic phrase to denote a thing's complete readiness and full presence, as if in the hand.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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