KJV King James Version
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
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Job 30:23
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
WEB World English Bible
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
ASV American Standard Version
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
Surrounding context — Job 30
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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Ecclesiastes 12:5-7Also [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:Ecclesiastes 9:5For 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.Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: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 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.Job 9:22This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.Job 14:5Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;Genesis 3:19In 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.Job 3:19The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.2 Samuel 14:14For 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 10:8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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