Job 15:23 - Exposition

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? This, again, might appropriately have been said of Cain, who was "a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth" ( Genesis 4:14 ), and may at times have had difficulty in procuring his daily bread. At any rate, it is the frequent experience of the wicked who lose their ill-gotten gains, and are brought down to abject poverty, and actual want of the necessaries of life. "He wanders abroad to be the food of vultures " is a translation of the passage suggested by some moderns (as Merx), and has the support of the Septuagint, κατατέτακται εῖς σῖτα ψυψίν . But it requires a slight change in the pointing. He knoweth that the day of darkness is nigh at hand . "The day of darkness" is probably the day of his decease: this he "knows," or at any rate, surmises, to be near.