Job 15:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
  • Job 30:3-4 : 3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land. 4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining. 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked, 38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.

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    24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • Job 18:12
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    14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

  • Job 24:13-18
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    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

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    11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

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    17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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    34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

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    23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Job 20:22
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    22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

  • Job 15:30
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    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

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    25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

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    19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

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    15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

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    5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

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    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

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    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

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