Job 30 · Verse 23

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:23, King James Version

Job 30:23 in other translations

BSBYes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
WEBFor I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
ASVFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
YLTFor I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
DARBYFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
BBEFor I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
WebsterFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

What does Job 30:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:16-23

16-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Thou wilt bring me to death - This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I should survive it. To the house appointed for all living - Or to the house, מועד moed, the rendezvous, the place of general assembly of human beings: the great devourer in whose jaws all that have lived, now live, and shall live, must necessarily meet. " - O great man-eater! Whose every day is carnival; not sated yet! Unheard of epicure! without a fellow! The veriest gluttons do not always cram! Some intervals of abstinence are sought To edge the appetite: thou seekest none. Methinks the countless swarms thou hast devour'd, And thousands that each hour thou gobblest up, This, less than this, might gorge thee to the full. But O! rapacious still, thou gap'st for more, Like one, whole days defrauded of his meals, On whom lank hunger lays her skinny hand, And whets to keenest eagerness his cravings; As if diseases, massacres, and poisons, Famine, and war, were not thy caterers." The Grave.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 30:15-31

Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something…

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Job 30:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
יָ֭דַעְתִּיYa.da'.tiI knowH3045
מָ֣וֶתMa.vetdeathH4194
תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִיte.shi.Ve.niyou will bring meH7725
וּבֵ֖יתu.Veitand a house ofH1004
מוֹעֵ֣דmo.'Edappointed meetingH4150
לְכָל\־le.kholfor everyH3605
חָֽי\׃Chailiving [thing]H2416

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:23

  • Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

    Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  • Hebrews 9:27

    And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:8

    There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

  • Job 14:5

    Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Job 21:33

    The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

  • 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.

  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

  • Job 9:22

    This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

  • Job 3:19

    The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

  • Job 10:8

    Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the house.
14:5; 21:33; Ge 3:19; 2Sa 14:14; Ec 8:8; 9:5; 12:5-7; Heb 9:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 30:22

    Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • Job 30:24

    Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

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Job 30:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque yo conozco que me reduces á la muerte; y á la casa determinada á todo viviente.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car je sais que tu m’amènes à la mort, la maison de rassemblement de tous les vivants.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn ich weiß es, du willst mich in den Tod zurückführen und in das Versammlungshaus aller Lebendigen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Scio quia morti trades me, ubi constituta est domus omni viventi.