Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, {saying}, Where {is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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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}
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
{Shall} not the day of the LORD {be} darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. {He...: Heb. They shall drive him}
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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;
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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}
That day {is} a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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}
I have been young, and {now} am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
{He is} wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened {himself} against him, and hath prospered?
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
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.