Job 15:23

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
  • Job 30:3-4 : 3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. 4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

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    12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

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    17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

  • Job 24:13-18
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    17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

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    11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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    17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

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    34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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    22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

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    30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

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    25 They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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    19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

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    15 They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

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    20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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    21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

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    19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

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    6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

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