Job 15:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.”
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“He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He is wandering for bread--`Where <FI>is<Fi> it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 15:23 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- Psalms 59:15They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalms 59:16But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
- Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Proverbs 10:3The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Proverbs 16:4The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8So 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.
- Lamentations 5:6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
- Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Joel 2:2a 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.
- Amos 5:20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
- Zephaniah 1:15That 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,
- Hebrews 10:27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
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