Job 15:23

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Por po anda vagueando, dizendo: Onde est? Bem sabe que o dia das trevas lhe est preparado, mo.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Anda vagueando por po, dizendo: Onde est? Bem sabe que j o dia das trevas lhe est preparado, mo.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Anda vagueando por po, dizendo: Onde est? Bem sabe que o dia das trevas lhe est perto, mo.

Bible Verse Review
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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 בידו "suis factis", Tigurine version; "per manum suam", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread - The Septuagint renders this, “he is destined to be food for vultures” - κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν 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 בידו beyado, in his hand - in his possession. As he cannot get bread, he must soon meet death.