Job 30:23

Job is convinced God will bring him to death, the house appointed for all the living. He faces his mortality with sober realism.

Cross-references · 11

• Eccl 12:5–7when 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.
• Eccl 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.
• Eccl 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.
• Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
• Gen 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.”
• Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
• 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,
• Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
• 2 Sam 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.
• Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

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