Teks -- Job 30:23 (NET)

30:23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

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Wesley: Job 30:23 - House appointed

The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house appointed for us, by him that has appointed the bounds of all our habitations. And it is appointed for all living. It is the common receptacle for rich and poor: we must all be brought thither, and that shortly.

JFB: Job 30:16-23

Job's outward calamities affect his mind.

JFB: Job 30:16-23 - poured out

In irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

JFB: Job 30:23

This shows Job 19:25 cannot be restricted to Job's hope of a temporal deliverance.

JFB: Job 30:23 - death

As in Job 28:22, the realm of the dead (Heb 9:27; Gen 3:19).

Clarke: Job 30:23 - Thou wilt bring me to death

Thou wilt bring me to death - This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I should survive it

Clarke: Job 30:23 - To the house appointed for all living

To the house appointed for all living - Or to the house, מועד moed , the rendezvous, the place of general assembly of human beings: the great devourer in whose jaws all that have lived, now live, and shall live, must necessarily meet

"- O great man-eater

Whose every day is carnival; not sated yet

Unheard of epicure! without a fellow

The veriest gluttons do not always cram

Some intervals of abstinence are sough

To edge the appetite: thou seekest none

Methinks the countless swarms thou hast devour’ d

And thousands that each hour thou gobblest up

This, less than this, might gorge thee to the full

But O! rapacious still, thou gap’ st for more

Like one, whole days defrauded of his meals

On whom lank hunger lays her skinny hand

And whets to keenest eagerness his cravings

As if diseases, massacres, and poisons

Famine, and war, were not thy caterers.

The Grave.

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TSK: Job 30:23 - the house

the house : Job 14:5, Job 21:33; Gen 3:19; 2Sa 14:14; Ecc 8:8, Ecc 9:5, Ecc 12:5-7; Heb 9:27

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Poole: Job 30:23 - To the house appointed for all living

I see nothing will satisfy thee but my death, which thou art bringing upon me in a lingering and dismal manner.

To the house appointed for all living to the grave, to which all living men are coming and hastening.

Haydock: Job 30:23 - Liveth

Liveth. Death is a relief to a just man in tribulation. (Worthington)

Gill: Job 30:23 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death // and to the house appointed for all living

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death,.... Quickly and by the present affliction upon him; he was assured, as he thought, that this was the view and design of God in this providence, under which he was to bring him to death and the grave; that he would never take off his hand till he had brought him to the dust of death, to that lifeless dust from whence he had his original; otherwise, that he would he brought thither, sooner or later, was no great masterpiece of knowledge; every man knows this will be the case with him as with all; death is become necessary by sin, which brought it into the world, and the sentence of it on all men in it, and by the decree and appointment of God, by which it is fixed and settled that all should die; and this is confirmed by all experience in all ages, a very few excepted, only two persons, Enoch and Elijah, Gen 5:24, sometimes the death of persons is made known to them by divine revelation, as to Aaron and Moses, Num 20:12; and sometimes it may be gathered to be nigh from the symptoms of it on the body; from growing diseases, and the infirmities of old age; but Job concluded it from the manner of God's dealing with him, as he thought in wrath and indignation, determining to make an utter end of him:

and to the house appointed for all living; the grave, which is the house for the body when dead to be brought unto and lodged in; as the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens", 2Co 5:1, is for the soul in its separate state, until the resurrection morn; which house or grave is man's "long home", Ecc 12:5; and this is prepared and appointed for all men living, since all must die; and all that die have a house or grave, though that is sometimes a watery, and not an earthy one; however the dust of everybody has a receptacle provided for it, where it is reserved until the time of the resurrection, and then it is brought forth, Rev 20:13; and this is by divine appointment; the word used signifies both an appointed time and place, and is often used of the Jewish solemnities, which were fixed with respect to both; and also of the people or congregation that attended them; the grave is the general rendezvous of mankind, and both the time when and the place where the dead are gathered and brought unto it are fixed by the determinate will and counsel of God.