Job 15:23New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— He wandereth abroad for bread,—where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— He is wandering for bread—'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He flees because of the threat of judgment; he does not know that the day of darkness is already at his hand,
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
He
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he ( she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
wandereth abroad
5074 {5074} Primeנָדַדnadad{naw-dad'}
A primitive root; properly to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
for bread,
3899 {3899} Primeלֶחֶםlechem{lekh'-em}
From H3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it).
[ saying], Where
x346 (0346) Complementאַיֵּה'ayeh{ah-yay'}
Prolonged from H0335; where?.
[ is it]? he knoweth
3045 {3045} Primeידעyada`{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
that
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
the day
3117 {3117} Primeיוֹםyowm{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
of darkness
2822 {2822} Primeחֹשֶׁךְchoshek{kho-shek'}
From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.
is ready
3559 {3559} Primeכּוּןkuwn{koon}
A primitive root; properly to be erect (that is, stand perpendicular);. hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal ( establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative ( appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous).
z8737 <8737> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 793
at his hand.
3027 {3027} Primeיָדyad{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote. |
Job 15:23
_ _ Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in Old Testament depicts sore need (Isaiah 5:13). Contrast the pious man’s lot (Job 5:20-22).
_ _ knoweth — has the firm conviction. Contrast the same word applied to the pious (Job 5:24, Job 5:25).
_ _ ready at his hand — an Arabic phrase to denote a thing’s complete readiness and full presence, as if in the hand. |
Job 15:23
Knoweth — From his own guilty conscience. |
Job 15:23
He wandereth (o) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
(o) God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary. |
- wandereth:
Job 30:3-4 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ... Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
Genesis 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Psalms 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Psalms 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
Lamentations 5:6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:9 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Hebrews 11:37-38 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; ... (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
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- the day:
Job 18:5-6 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. ... The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Job 18:12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.
Amos 5:20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Zephaniah 1:15 That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
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