Job 15:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 They shall wander up and down for food, And wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 His strength shall be famished, Calamity 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 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. 4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Will the day of Yahweh not 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 distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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    24Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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    12His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

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    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • Job 24:13-18
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    13"These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

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    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

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    28He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.

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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?

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    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

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    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

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    25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Ps 59:15
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    15They shall wander up and down for food, And wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

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    5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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    20Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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    21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen; His bones that were not seen stick out.

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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

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    22The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

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    10Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

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