For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Parallel translations
- WEB For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- BSB Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- NKJV For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
- NASB “For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house of meeting for all living.
- NLT And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.
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Quick answer
Job is convinced God will bring him to death, the house appointed for all the living. He faces his mortality with sober realism.
Overview
Job expresses certainty that his afflictions are leading to the grave, which he calls the appointed dwelling for everyone who lives. This reflects the universal reality of death as the common destiny of all people because of sin. Yet earlier Job had glimpsed a Redeemer who would stand at the last, and the New Testament reveals that Christ has conquered death, turning the grave from a final house into a doorway to resurrection life.
Cross-references & the web
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- Eccl 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:
- Eccl 8:8There 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.
- Eccl 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.
- Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- Job 9:22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Gen 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 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 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- Job 3:19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
- 2 Sam 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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