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Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity

Job 30:23

In 11 translations

BSB
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
KJV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
WEB
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
ASV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
LSV
For I have known You bring me back [to] death, || And [to] the house appointed for all living.
YLT
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
DBY
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
DRC
I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
GNV
Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
JPS
For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
LXXE
For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־חָֽי׃
LXX-Br
Οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει, οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ecclesiastes 12:5–7when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.…
  • Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
  • Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
  • Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
  • 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
  • Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
  • Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
  • Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
  • Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
  • Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

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