Job 30:23
What does Job 30:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 30:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And <FI>to<Fi> the house appointed for all living.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5
yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
- Job 10:8
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
- Job 9:22
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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