Bible Strands
Job 30:23
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God while enduring physical assault and social abandonment, declaring his certainty that divine action will lead him to his final end.
The words — The Hebrew יָדַעְתִּי (yada'ti) translates as "I know," and מוֹעֵד (mo'ed) literally means "appointed meeting." These terms anchor the statement in settled recognition rather than emotional reaction.
The thread — The fixed nature of mortality recurs in Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 9:5, and Ecclesiastes 12:5.
Why it lands — The text states that God directs every person to a predetermined place of death. It requires the reader to accept human limitation and the inescapable boundary that divides the living from the dead.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Cross-references
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 when 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.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8 As 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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- Hebrews 9:27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- Genesis 3:19 By 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.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14 For we will surely 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 3:19 Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
- Job 9:22 It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 14:5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
- Job 21:33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.