Job 15:23 · KJV
“He wandereth abroad for bread, {saying}, Where {is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.”
— Job 15:23
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15 — Context
A dreadful sound {is} in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. {A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of fears}
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23He wandereth abroad for bread, {saying}, Where {is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Cross References
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 59:15
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. {for meat: Heb. to eat} {and grudge...: or, if they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night}
Job 18:12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
Amos 5:20
{Shall} not the day of the LORD {be} darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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;
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. {of many...: Heb. of generation and generation}