Job 15:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [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 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond 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 tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet 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 gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [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 looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.

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    17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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

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    15Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

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

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

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