New English Translation
Job 15:23
23he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that 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
21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him. 22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. 24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, 25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
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נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַלֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה יָדַ֓ע׀ כִּֽי־נָכ֖וֹן בְּיָד֣וֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:23
- Job 30:3gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
- Genesis 4:12When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
- Psalms 59:15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.
- Psalms 109:10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
- Lamentations 5:6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
- Job 18:5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many – all that is about to come is obscure.
- Joel 2:2It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
- Amos 5:20Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light – gloomy blackness, not bright light?
- Zephaniah 1:15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
- Hebrews 10:27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
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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