Job 30:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
  • Eccl 12:5-7 : 5 Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street. 6 While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well. 7 And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 for we do surely die, and `are' as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
  • Job 3:19 : 19 Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
  • Job 14:5 : 5 If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;
  • Job 21:33 : 33 Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

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  • 22Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

    14If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

  • 28And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

  • 27And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

  • Isa 38:10-12
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    10`I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

    11I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

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  • 22When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

  • Job 10:20-21
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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

  • 4`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

  • 24With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

  • 28I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

  • 1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • 18Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

  • 3Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 15Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

  • 7For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

  • 24Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

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

  • 3Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down `to' the pit.

  • 30To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • 4Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou `art' with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.

  • 20That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

  • 3And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

  • 3O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

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    47Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

    48Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

  • 5If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

  • 15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

  • 6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • 14For He doth complete my portion, And many such things `are' with Him.

  • 26And after my skin hath compassed this `body', Then from my flesh I see God:

  • 8To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

  • 23This `one' dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.

  • 22And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

  • 9`What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

  • 22And hath drawn the mighty by his power, He riseth, and none believeth in life.

  • 8If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou `art', And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

  • 20Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

  • 16Lord, by these do `men' live, And by all in them `is' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

  • 32And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.

  • 10For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

  • 7There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

  • 17Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

  • 6Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling `is' in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

  • 4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

  • 22For I have not known to give flattering titles, In a little doth my Maker take me away.

  • 18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.