New King James Version
Job 30:23
23For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
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 Living Translation (NLT)And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.
Context of Job 30:23
21But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me. 22You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success. For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. 24“Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins, If they cry out when He destroys it. 25Have I not wept for him who was in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
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כִּֽי־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־חָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:23
- Job 14:5Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.
- Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; Everyone shall follow him, As countless have gone before him.
- Genesis 3:19In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets.
- Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
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
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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
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