He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Cross References
Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Job 15:24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
Psalm 59:15They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
Treasury of Scripture
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
wandereth
Job 30:3,4
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste…
Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Psalm 59:15
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
the day
Job 18:5,6,12,18
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine…
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Joel 2:2
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
