Verse 23

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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 Won't the day of Yahweh 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.