OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

Job 15:23

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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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Job 15:23 in context

Job 15:20–26

20

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

21

A sound of terrors is in his ears.

In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

22

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness.

He is waited for by the sword.

23
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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24

Distress and anguish make him afraid.

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25

Because he has stretched out his hand against God,

and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

26

he runs at him with a stiff neck,

with the thick shields of his bucklers,

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