Job 15:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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  • Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 His strength shall be weakened by hunger, 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 times desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer you shall be on the earth.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Indeed, 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 dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there 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, with no brightness in it?
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation 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 fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, 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 mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

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