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Job 15:23

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
נֹ֘דֵ֤דno.Ded[is] wanderingH5074 →
ה֣וּאhu'heH1931 →
לַלֶּ֣חֶםla.Le.chemfor <the> foodH3899 →
אַיֵּ֑ה'ai.Yehwhere?H346 →
יָדַ֓ע׀ya.Da'he knowsH3045 →
כִּֽי־ki-thatH3588 →
נָכ֖וֹןna.Khon[has been] preparedH3559 →
בְּיָד֣וֹbe.ya.Doin hand hisH3027 →
יֽוֹם־yom-a day ofH3117 →
חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Cho.shekhdarknessH2822 →

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Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.Psalms 59:15They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.Amos 5:20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?Ecclesiastes 11:8So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.Job 30:3–4Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.Job 18:5–6Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”Hebrews 11:37–38They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.Zephaniah 1:15That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,Hebrews 10:27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.Lamentations 5:6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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