Job 15:23

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Job 15:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

22 He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24 Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

25 For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

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Job 30:3

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Job 30:4

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Psalms 59:15

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Psalms 109:10

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Lamentations 5:6

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

Hebrews 11:38

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

Job 18:5

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 18:6

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

Job 18:12

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Amos 5:20

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Zephaniah 1:15

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Hebrews 10:27

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.