Job 15:23 “He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is…”

Job 15:23

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

World English Bible

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

American Standard Version

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Geneva Bible 1599

He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

Darby Translation

He wandereth abroad for bread, — where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Young's Literal Translation

He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

Bible in Basic English

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

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Cross references

“wandereth”

Psalm 59:15 Psalm 109:10 Genesis 4:12 Lamentations 5:6 Lamentations 5:9 Job 30:3

Psalm 59:15 · BSB

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Psalm 109:10 · BSB

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Genesis 4:12 · BSB

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Lamentations 5:6 · BSB

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:9 · BSB

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Job 30:3 · BSB

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

“the day”

Job 18:12 Ecclesiastes 11:8 Amos 5:20 Job 18:18 Joel 2:2 Zephaniah 1:15

Job 18:12 · BSB

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 · BSB

So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.

Amos 5:20 · BSB

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Job 18:18 · BSB

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Joel 2:2 · BSB

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Zephaniah 1:15 · BSB

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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