Job 15:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ”

Job 15:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread - The Septuagint renders this, “he is destined to be food for vultures” - κατατέτακται δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν katatetaktai de eis sitos gupsin . The mea...
Job 15:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

He wandereth (o) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. (o) God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he...
Job 15:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying , Where is it ? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. He wandereth abroad for bread - He is reduced to a state of the utmost indigence, he...
Job 15:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He wandereth abroad, &c.— His carcase to be cast forth as food for the vulture. Heath. He wandereth about, flying the oppressor. Houbigant.
Job 15:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in the Old Testament depicts sore ne...
Job 15:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he...
Job 15:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread. — This is one of the points in which the picture seems inconsistent, because overdrawn, except that forage as well as plunder may be the object of marauding raids.
Job 15:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...
Job 15:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...
Job 15:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using...
Job 15:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no s...
Job 15:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He wandereth abroad for bread ,.... Either as a plunderer and robber, he roves about to increase his worldly power and substance; or rather, being reduced to poverty, wanders about from place to pla...
Job 15:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Ver. 23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? ] He is hard put to i...
Job 15:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He wandereth abroad for bread His poverty is so great, that he is forced to wander hither and thither to seek for bread, and cannot find it, a just punishment for him that took away the bread and s...
Job 15:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of consid...
Job 15:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, a...
Job 15:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His poverty is so great, that he is forced to wander hither and thither to seek for bread, and cannot find it. A just punishment for him that took away the bread and substance of others by violence....
Job 15:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s cou...
Job 15:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm...
Job 15:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? The cry for bread There are certain things which if men want they will have. I have heard say that in the old bread riots, when men were actu...
Job 15:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each spea...
Job 15:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety
Job 15:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:20 ; Ecclesiastes 11:8 ; Genesis 4:12 ; Hebrews 10:27 ; Hebrews 11:37 ; Hebrews 11:38 ; Job 18:12 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:5 ; Job 18:6 ; Job 30:3 ; Job 30:4 ; Joel 2:2 ; Lamentation...
Job 15:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Knoweth — From his own guilty conscience.

Job 15:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 15:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 15:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 15:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 15:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 15:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 15:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 15:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 15:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 15:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 15:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 15:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 15:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 15:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 15:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 15:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 15:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 15:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 15:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 15:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 15:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 15:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 15:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes