Job 15:23
he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
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- Ps 59:15 : 15 They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.
- Ps 109:10 : 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
- Job 18:12 : 12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
- Job 30:3-4 : 3 gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste. 4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
- Gen 4:12 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
- Job 18:5-6 : 5 “Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine. 6 The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
- Eccl 11:8 : 8 So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.
- Lam 5:6 : 6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
- Lam 5:9 : 9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
- Joel 2:2 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
- Amos 5:20 : 20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
- Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
- Heb 10:27 : 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
- Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
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14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
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