Job 15:23
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When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

wandereth

Job 30:3,4 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. . . .

Genesis 4:12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Psalm 59:15 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Psalm 109:10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Lamentations 5:6,9 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. . . .

Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: . . .

the day

Job 18:5,6,12,18 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Ecclesiastes 11:8 If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years of generation and generation.

Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds,

Hebrews 10:27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
22He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side. 23When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.24Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.…
Cross References
Job 15:22
He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

Job 15:24
Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

Psalm 59:15
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Lexicon
He
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

wanders about
נֹ֘דֵ֤ד (nō·ḏêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away

as food
לַלֶּ֣חֶם (lal·le·ḥem)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

for vultures;
אַיֵּ֑ה (’ay·yêh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 344: The screamer, a hawk

he knows
יָדַ֓ע ׀ (yā·ḏa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

the day
יֽוֹם־ (yō·wm-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of darkness
חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

is at hand.
בְּיָד֣וֹ (bə·yā·ḏōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand


Additional Translations
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

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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