Job 30:23

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And <FI>to<Fi> the house appointed for all living.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 30:23 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 3:19By 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.”
  2. Joshua 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
  3. 2 Samuel 14:14For 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.
  4. Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
  5. Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
  6. Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  7. Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
  8. Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
  9. Ecclesiastes 8:8As 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.
  10. Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
  11. Ecclesiastes 12:5when 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.
  12. Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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