Job 15:23

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He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

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  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They return at evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 May his children wander and beg, seeking food far from their ruined homes.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
  • Job 30:3-4 : 3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands. 4 They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine. 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 For if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them, but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is meaningless.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a great and mighty army comes, unlike any seen before, and none will be seen again for generations to follow.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, and they were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated. 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and on mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

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