Parallel Verses

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:

New American Standard Bible

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

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 wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נדד 
Nadad 
Usage: 28

that the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword; 23 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: 24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

Cross References

Psalm 59:15

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

Psalm 109:10

Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

Job 18:12

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

Genesis 4:12

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Job 18:5-6

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

Job 18:18

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 30:3-4

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

Joel 2:2

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

Amos 5:20

Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

Hebrews 10:27

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

Hebrews 11:37-38

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

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