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 cruel to me. You have used your strength to attack me. 22You take hold of me and you carry me away, like a strong wind that blows. You use a storm to destroy me. I know that you are already taking me to my death. Everyone who lives has to go to that place. 24When someone is weak and in trouble, people do not usually try to hurt him. When someone calls aloud for help, they do not refuse to help him. 25When other people were in trouble, I wept for them. When I saw poor people it made me very upset.

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 14:5You have decided how long people should live. You control the number of months that each person will live. Nobody can live any longer than that.
• Job 21:33A big crowd of people come to his funeral. They make a heap of earth over his body, in the valley where he rests happily.
• Genesis 3:19You will have to work hard for a long time before you have any food to eat. You will do this for your whole life until you die. Then you will return into the ground. That is where you came from. I made you from the soil of the ground, and you will become soil again.’
• 2 Samuel 14:14We must all die one day. When that happens, we are like water that is poured on the ground. We cannot pick it up again. But God does not remove our lives from us. Instead, he finds a way to bring us back to him when we have gone far away.
• Ecclesiastes 8:8Nobody has the power to control the wind. Also, nobody has the power to decide the day of their death. Soldiers are not allowed to leave a battle. Also, if people do wicked things, that will not rescue them.
• Ecclesiastes 9:5People who are alive know that they will die one day. But dead people do not know anything. No more good things can happen to them. Nobody remembers them.
• Ecclesiastes 12:5You will be afraid to stand on high places. You will worry about danger in the streets. When you are old, your hair will become white, like the flowers on an almond tree. You will feel too tired to move yourself, like an old grasshopper. You will not want to have sex. Finally, we will all die and go to our home in the ground. Many people will weep at our funeral.
• Hebrews 9:27Every person must die once. After death, God will judge each person.

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