Job 15:22
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
BSB
ASV
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
KJV
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
That he shall return out of darkness - If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the assassin. This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think the passage should be understood to signify that he has no hope of a resurrection; he can never escape from the tomb. This I doubt: in the days of the writer of this book, the doctrine of a future judgment was understood in every part of the East where the knowledge of the true God was diffused.
Good men expect light at evening time, light out of darkness; but what reason have those to expect that they shall return out of the darkness of trouble who would not return from the darkness of sin, but went on in it? It is the misery of damned sinners that they know they shall never return out of that utter darkness, nor pass the gulf there fixed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
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You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
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2 Kings 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
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Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
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Job 19:29then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes,…