Job 30:23

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yes, I know that you will lead me to death—the place appointed for all who live.

Hebrew Names Version
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

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

English Standard Version
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.

New Century Version
I know you will bring me down to death, to the place where all living people must go.

New English Translation
I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Amplified Bible
"For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.

New American Standard Bible
"For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house of meeting for all living.

World English Bible
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I know that You will bring me to deathAnd to the house of meeting for all living.

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

Contemporary English Version
Soon he will send me home to the world of the dead, where we all must go.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I know that you will bring me to death, the house assigned to everyone living.

Darby Translation
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

Easy-to-Read Version
I know you will lead me to my death, to that place where all the living must go.

George Lamsa Translation
And yet I know that thou wilt bring me back from death to the meeting place for all living.

Good News Translation
I know you are taking me off to my death, to the fate in store for everyone.

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, I know that you will bring me to death and to the house of assembly for all the living.

Literal Translation
For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sure I am, yt thou wilt delyuer me vnto death: where as a lodgyng is prepared for all me

American Standard Version
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Bible in Basic English
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

King James Version (1611)
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y woot, that thow schalt bitake me to deeth, where an hows is ordeyned to ech lyuynge man.

Update Bible Version
For I know that you will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

New King James Version
For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

New Living Translation
And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.

New Life Bible
For I know that You will bring me to death, to the place for all the living.

New Revised Standard
I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Revised Standard Version
Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Young's Literal Translation
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity. ¹⁶ Now, therefore, over myself, my soul poureth itself out, There seize me days of affliction: ¹⁷ Night, boreth, my bones, all over me, - and, my sinews, find no rest; ¹⁸ Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about: ¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry out for help unto thee, and thou dost not answer, I stand still, and thou dost gaze at me; ²¹ Thou art turned to become a cruel one unto me, With the might of thy hand, thou assailest me; ²² Thou liftest up me to the wind, thou carriest me away, and the storm maketh me faint; ²³ For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living. ²⁴ Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity - for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the house: Job 14:5, Job 21:33, Genesis 3:19, 2 Samuel 14:14, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 12:5-7, Hebrews 9:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 5:5 - and he died Genesis 23:4 - burying place Genesis 23:19 - General Genesis 47:29 - must die Genesis 49:33 - and yielded Genesis 50:5 - bury me Genesis 50:24 - I die Joshua 23:14 - I am going Joshua 24:33 - died 2 Samuel 12:23 - I shall go 1 Kings 2:2 - I go Job 3:14 - kings Job 3:19 - The small Job 14:12 - So man Job 17:13 - the grave Job 27:19 - shall lie Job 34:15 - General Psalms 49:14 - they Psalms 89:48 - What Ecclesiastes 6:6 - do Isaiah 14:18 - house

Cross-References

Genesis 29:31
And, when Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, he granted her to bear children, - whereas, Rachel, was barren.

Genesis 30:5
and Bilhah conceived, and bare unto Jacob a son;

Genesis 30:6
and Rachel said God hath vindicated me. Moreover also he hath hearkened unto my voice, and hath given me a son. For this cause, called she his name Dan.

Isaiah 4:1
And seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread, will we eat, And our own apparel, will we wear, - Only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Luke 1:21
And the people were expecting Zachariah, and began to marvel that he should tarry in the Temple;

Luke 1:25
Thus, for me, hath the Lord wrought, - in the days in which he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.

Luke 1:27
unto a virgin, betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and, the name of the virgin, was, Mary;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death,.... Quickly and by the present affliction upon him; he was assured, as he thought, that this was the view and design of God in this providence, under which he was to bring him to death and the grave; that he would never take off his hand till he had brought him to the dust of death, to that lifeless dust from whence he had his original; otherwise, that he would he brought thither, sooner or later, was no great masterpiece of knowledge; every man knows this will be the case with him as with all; death is become necessary by sin, which brought it into the world, and the sentence of it on all men in it, and by the decree and appointment of God, by which it is fixed and settled that all should die; and this is confirmed by all experience in all ages, a very few excepted, only two persons, Enoch and Elijah, Genesis 5:24: sometimes the death of persons is made known to them by divine revelation, as to Aaron and Moses, Numbers 20:12; and sometimes it may be gathered to be nigh from the symptoms of it on the body; from growing diseases, and the infirmities of old age; but Job concluded it from the manner of God's dealing with him, as he thought in wrath and indignation, determining to make an utter end of him:

and [to] the house appointed for all living; the grave, which is the house for the body when dead to be brought unto and lodged in; as the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens", 2 Corinthians 5:1, is for the soul in its separate state, until the resurrection morn; which house or grave is man's "long home", Ecclesiastes 12:5; and this is prepared and appointed for all men living, since all must die; and all that die have a house or grave, though that is sometimes a watery, and not an earthy one; however the dust of everybody has a receptacle provided for it, where it is reserved until the time of the resurrection, and then it is brought forth, Revelation 20:13; and this is by divine appointment; the word used signifies both an appointed time and place, and is often used of the Jewish solemnities, which were fixed with respect to both; and also of the people or congregation that attended them; the grave is the general rendezvous of mankind, and both the time when and the place where the dead are gathered and brought unto it are fixed by the determinate will and counsel of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death - This is the language of despair. Occasionally Job seems to have had an assurance that his calamities would pass by, and that God would show himself to be his friend on earth (compare the notes at Job 19:25), and at other times he utters the language of despair. Such would be commonly the case with a good man afflicted as he was, and agitated with alternate hopes and fears. We are not to set these expressions down as contradictions. All that inspiration is responsible for, is the fair record of his feelings; and that he should have alternate hopes and fears is in entire accordance with what occurs when we are afflicted. Here the view of his sorrows appears to have been so overwhelming, that he says he knew they must terminate in death. The phrase “to death” means to the house of the dead, or to the place where the dead are. Umbreit.

And to the house appointed for all living - The grave; compare Hebrews 9:27. That house or home is “appointed” for all. It is not a matter of chance that we come there, but it is because the Great Arbiter of life has so ordained. What an affecting consideration it should be, that such a house is designated for all! A house so dark, so gloomy, so solitary, so repulsive! For all that sit on thrones; for all that move in the halls of music and pleasure; for all that roll along in splendid carriages; for all the beautiful, the happy, the vigorous, the manly; for all in the marts of business, in the low scenes of dissipation, and in the sanctuary of God; for every one who is young, and every one who is aged, this is the home! Here they come at last; and here they lie down in the narrow bed! God’s hand will bring them all there; and there will they lie until his voice summons them to judgment!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 30:23. 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.