Job 30:23
Good News Translation
I know you are taking me off to my death, to the fate in store for everyone.

New Revised Standard Version
I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Contemporary English Version
Soon he will send me home to the world of the dead, where we all must go.

New American Bible
Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

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Job 14:5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

Job 21:33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

2 Samuel 14:14 We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street. . . .

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me. 23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14
We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Job 3:19
The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

Job 9:22
One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Ecclesiastes 12:5
And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Job 30:22
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