The Meaning of Job 30:23 Explained

Job 30:23

KJV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

YLT: For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

Darby: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

ASV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For I know  [that] thou wilt bring  me [to] death,  and [to] the house  appointed  for all living. 

What does Job 30:23 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:23 mean?

For I know [to] death [that] You will bring me and [to] the house appointed for all living
כִּֽי־ יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־ חָֽי

יָ֭דַעְתִּי  I  know 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
מָ֣וֶת  [to]  death 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָוֶת  
Sense: death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead.
תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי  [that]  You  will  bring  me 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, second person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
וּבֵ֖ית  and  [to]  the  house 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
מוֹעֵ֣ד  appointed 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מֹועֵד  
Sense: appointed place, appointed time, meeting.
לְכָל־  for  all 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
חָֽי  living 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.