Job 15:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֹדֵד הוּא לַלֶּחֶם אַיֵּה יָדַע כִּי־נָכוֹן בְּיָדוֹ יוֹם־חֹשֶׁךְ

Transliteration

nōdēd hûʾ lalleḥem ʾayyēh yādaʿ kî-nāḵôn bəyādô yôm-ḥōšeḵ

Grammar Details

• *nōdēd*: qal participle, masculine singular - wandering
• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *lalleḥem*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the bread
• *ʾayyēh*: interrogative adverb - where
• *yādaʿ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he knows
• *kî-nāḵôn*: conjunction + niphal participle, masculine singular - that is ready
• *bəyādô*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his hand
• *yôm-ḥōšeḵ*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun, masculine singular - day of darkness

Word Meanings

• *nûd*: to wander, move to and fro, flutter
• *leḥem*: bread, food, sustenance
• *ʾayyēh*: where, how
• *yādaʿ*: to know, perceive, recognize
• *kûn*: to be firm, stable, established
• *yād*: hand, power, side
• *yôm*: day, time
• *ḥōšeḵ*: darkness, obscurity

Referenced Verses

• Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them wander up and down{H8686)}{H8675)}{H8799)} for meat{H8800)}, and grudge{H8799)} if they be not satisfied{H8799)}.
• 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.