Job 30:23

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Summary

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

The house

General references

Genesis 23:19

Job 34:15

Bible References

The house

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;
Moreover, all men will follow after him,
While countless ones go before him.

By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

General references

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.