And I know you are sending me to my death— the destination of all who live.
Parallel translations
- WEB For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- KJV For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and 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.
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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
Cross-references · 11
- Eccl 12:5–7yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Eccl 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
- Eccl 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
- Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
- Job 9:22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
- Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
- Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
- Job 3:19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
- 2 Sam 14:14For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
- Job 10:8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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