New King James Version
Job 15:23
23He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his 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 Living Translation (NLT)They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?’ They know their day of destruction is near.
Context of Job 15:23
21Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him. 22He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him. He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle. 25For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly 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 30:3They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,
- Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
- Psalms 59:15They wander up and down for food, And howl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalms 109:10Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
- Lamentations 5:6We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—
- Job 18:5“The light of the wicked indeed goes out, And the flame of his fire does not shine.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8But if a man lives many years And rejoices in them all, Yet let him remember the days of darkness, For they will be many. All that is coming is vanity.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
- Amos 5:20Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
- Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, A day of trouble and distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness,
- Hebrews 10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will 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
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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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