Job 15:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

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  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
  • Job 18:12 : 12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Job 30:3-4 : 3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, 4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Eccl 11:8 : 8 But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.
  • Lam 5:6 : 6 `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.
  • Amos 5:20 : 20 Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?
  • Zeph 1:15 : 15 A day of wrath `is' that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;
  • Heb 11:37-38 : 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, 38 of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and `in' mountains, and `in' caves, and `in' the holes of the earth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:21-22
    2 verses
    84%

    21A fearful voice `is' in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

    22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched `is' he for the sword.

  • 24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

  • 12Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

  • 14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • 17Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

  • Job 24:13-18
    6 verses
    74%

    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

    15And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

    18Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

  • 28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

  • 11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Job 18:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.

    18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

  • 34And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

  • 23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

  • 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

  • 30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

  • 25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

  • 19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • 15They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.

  • 5A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

  • 20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

  • 21His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!

  • 19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • Job 18:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

    7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

  • 22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

  • 26All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

  • 4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

  • 15A day of wrath `is' that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.

  • 6And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

  • 6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • 22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • 23He giveth to him confidence, and he is supported, And his eyes `are' on their ways.

  • 20Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

  • 23Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

  • 8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

    3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

  • 14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • 23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

  • 5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • 16A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.

  • 10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

  • 5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

  • 8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

  • 13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.