Job 15:23

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

21The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him. 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword. He wandereth abroad for bread, — where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle. 25For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:

Job 15:23 word by word

נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַלֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה יָדַ֓ע׀ כִּֽי־נָכ֖וֹן בְּיָד֣וֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear

• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · foodH3899
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822
• handיָדyâd · handH3027

Cross-references for Job 15:23

• Job 30:3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
• Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.
• Psalms 59:15They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
• Psalms 109:10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
• Lamentations 5:6We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
• Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,
• Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
• Ecclesiastes 11:8but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.
• Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; — a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.
• Amos 5:20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
• Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness,
• Hebrews 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour 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

Topics related to Job 15:23

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz

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