Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

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.

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.

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 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 does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword. 23 He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand. 24 Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;



Cross References

Psalm 59:15

Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Psalm 109:10

Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.

Job 18:12

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and trouble shall be ready at his side.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.

Job 18:5-6

Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 18:18

They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

Job 30:3-4

They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin,

Ecclesiastes 11:8

but if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We bring in our bread with our souls, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains; a great people and a strong people; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there ever be again, even to the years of many generations.

Amos 5:20

Shall not the day of Jehovah 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 waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Hebrews 10:27

but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Hebrews 11:37-38

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

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