Job 30:23

21 You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

22 You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
KJV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
WEB
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
ASV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
DARBY
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
BLB
For I know [that] You will bring me [to] death, and [to] the house of appointment to all the living.
ÅB
for jeg vet at du fører meg til døden, til den bolig hvor alt levende samles.
OTB
For jeg vet at Du vil bringe meg til døden,
og til huset for samling for alle de levende.
B1930
for jeg vet at du fører mig til døden, til den bolig hvor alt levende samles.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 12:5–7

    when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

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  • Hebrews 9:27

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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  • Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

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  • Ecclesiastes 8:8

    As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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  • Job 14:5

    Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

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  • Job 21:33

    The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

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  • Genesis 3:19

    By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

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