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Job 15:23
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He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it?”He knows the day of darkness is at hand.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
They wander around and will become food for vultures. They know darkness will soon come.
he wanders about—food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
"He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
"He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?'He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
They scrounge around for food, all the while dreading the approaching darkness.
He wanders and looks for food, which isn't there. He knows the day of darkness is ready, at hand.
He wandereth abroad for bread,—where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders from place to place, looking for food. But he knows a dark day is coming, which he brought on himself.
He flees because of the threat of judgment; he does not know that the day of darkness is already at his hand,
and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses. They know their future is dark;
"He is wandering for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at hand.
He is wandering, for he seeks for bread. Where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is at his hand.
When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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:
He wandereth abroad for bread: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand.
He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.
And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:
Whanne he stirith hym to seke breed, he woot, that the dai of derknessis is maad redi in his hond.
He is destined for bread, as bread for vultures. He knows that he is ready for destruction.
He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders about for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.
They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?' They know their day of destruction is near.
He goes to look for food, saying, ‘Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is near.
They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?' They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;
A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;
When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
He is wandering for bread -- `Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
"He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wandereth: Job 30:3, Job 30:4, Genesis 4:12, Psalms 59:15, Psalms 109:10, Lamentations 5:6, Lamentations 5:9, Hebrews 11:37, Hebrews 11:38
the day: Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:12, Job 18:18, Ecclesiastes 11:8, Joel 2:2, Amos 5:20, Zephaniah 1:15, Hebrews 10:27
Reciprocal: Job 9:4 - who hath hardened Psalms 37:25 - nor his seed
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He wandereth abroad for bread,.... Either as a plunderer and robber, he roves about to increase his worldly power and substance; or rather, being reduced to poverty, wanders about from place to place, from door to door, to beg his bread; which is a curse imprecated on the posterity of wicked men, Psalms 109:10;
[saying], where [is it]? where is bread to be had? where shall I go for it? where lives a liberal man that will give it freely and generously? by this question it seems as if it was difficult for such a man to get his bread by begging; he having been cruel and oppressive to others, unkind and ungenerous in his time of prosperity, now finds but few that care to relieve him; and indeed a man that has not shown mercy to the indigent, when in his power to have relieved them, cannot expect mercy will be shown to him; this he does, wanders about, seeking food, "wheresoever he is" w:
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand; either that a day of affliction and adversity is coming upon him, perceiving his affairs to grow worse and worse, or to be immediately and already on him, which obliges him to wander about for bread; or that the day of death is at hand, which he is made sensible of by one symptom or another; or rather it may be the day of everlasting darkness in hell, the wrath of God to the uttermost he has deserved; he finds the day of judgment is at hand, and the Judge at the door, and in a short time he must receive the reward of eternal vengeance for the wicked deeds he has done; for so the words may be rendered, "that the day of darkness is prepared by his hand" x; by the evil works his hand has wrought, and so has treasured up to himself wrath against the day of wrath, and righteous judgment of God.
w So Noldius in Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 87. x ×××× "suis factis", Tigurine version; "per manum suam", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He wandereth abroad for bread - The Septuagint renders this, âhe is destined to be food for vulturesâ - καÏαÏεÌÏακÏαι Î´ÎµÌ ÎµÎ¹ÌÏ ÏιÍÏα Î³Ï ÏιÌν 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 come immediately. The whole design of this is to show that there is no calmness and security for a wicked man; that in the midst of apparent prosperity his soul is in constant dread.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:23. He 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 ×××× beyado, in his hand - in his possession. As he cannot get bread, he must soon meet death.
