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Job 15:23–24

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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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From verse 23

  1. Job 18:12Rank 1 from verse 23
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    12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

  2. Psalms 109:10Rank 2 from verse 23
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    10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

  3. Psalms 59:15Rank 3 from verse 23
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    15Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

  4. Amos 5:20Rank 4 from verse 23
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    20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  5. Ecclesiastes 11:8Rank 5 from verse 23
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    8But 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.

From verse 24

  1. Proverbs 24:34Rank 1 from verse 24
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    34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

  2. Proverbs 6:11Rank 2 from verse 24
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    11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  3. Isaiah 13:3Rank 3 from verse 24
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    3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

  4. Job 6:2–4Rank 4 from verse 24
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    2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  5. Matthew 26:37–38Rank 5 from verse 24
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    37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

    38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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Job 15:23

COMBINED MEANING

wandereth

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Third-person singular present form of wander. Sense 1: To move or roam without a settled course. Sense 2: Figuratively, to stray from a right way, command, or allegiance.

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COMBINED MEANING

abroad

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Out of doors or away from one’s usual place; outward, away, or throughout a wide area.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

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ready

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Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Job 15:24

COMBINED MEANING

trouble

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Sense 1: Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty. Sense 2: To disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

anguish

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Extreme distress, pain, grief, or oppressive trouble of body, mind, spirit, or heart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ready

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Prepared; in a state requiring no delay; willing or prompt.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

battle

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1. Armed fighting or conflict between opposing forces; an engagement or warfare. 2. A battle line, array, or body of forces prepared or engaged for combat.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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15:1THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

15:4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

15:6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

15:7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

15:8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

15:9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

15:10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

15:11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

15:12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

15:13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

15:17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

15:18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

15:19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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15:24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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15:25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

15:27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

15:28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

15:29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

15:30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

15:31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

15:32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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