Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand.
New American Standard Bible
He knows that a day of
King James Version
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Holman Bible
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.
International Standard Version
He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.
A Conservative Version
He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
American Standard Version
He wandereth abroad for bread,'saying , Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Amplified
“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
Bible in Basic English
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Darby Translation
He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
King James 2000
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.
Modern King James verseion
He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand.
NET Bible
he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
New Heart English Bible
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
The Emphasized Bible
A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;
Webster
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
World English Bible
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Youngs Literal Translation
He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
22 He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword. 23 He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand. 24 Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war.
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Cross References
Psalm 59:15
They shall wander to and fro to eat, though they shall not be satisfied; and they will pass the night
Psalm 109:10
And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.
Job 18:12
His strength shall be hunger, and destruction being prepared at his side.
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth.
Job 18:5-6
Also the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine;
Job 18:18
They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.
Job 30:3-4
In want and in hunger, barren, gnawing the dry land, yesternight desolation and burning.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
If man shall live many years, in them all shall he rejoice; and he shall remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All coming is vanity.
Lamentations 5:6
We gave the hand to Egypt, to Assur, to be filled with bread.
Lamentations 5:9
With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert
Joel 2:2
A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.
Amos 5:20
Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and dark and no shining to it?
Zephaniah 1:15
A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,
Hebrews 10:27
But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 11:37-38
They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;