Job 15:23

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

He is wandering for bread: Where [is] it? He has known that ready at his hand || Is a day of darkness.

YLT

He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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WLC

נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַלֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה יָדַ֓ע ׀ כִּֽי־נָכ֖וֹן בְּיָד֣וֹ יֽוֹם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

LXX-Br

κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν· οἶδε δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ὅτι μένει εἰς πτῶμα· ἡμέρα δὲ σκοτεινὴ αὐτὸν στροβήσει,

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• Job 18:12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
• Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
• Psalms 59:15They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
• 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.
• Amos 5:20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
• Job 30:3–4Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
• 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. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in…
• Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
• 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,
• 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.
• Hebrews 10:27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
• 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.”
• Job 18:5–6Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Lamentations 5:6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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