Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 15:23

23. He wandreth abroad for bread, saying, where is it ? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand .

His poverty is so great, that he is forced to wander hither and thither to seek for Bread, and cannot find it. A just punishment for him that took away the Bread and substance of others by violence.

i. e. The time of his total and irrecoverable and everlasting destruction.

i. e. Ready to seize upon him, or take him by the hand or shoulder like a Serjeant to arrest him. The words may well be rendred, was prepared by his hand; i. e. by his works or actions; which being most commonly done with the hand, are oft called by that name, as Exod. 14. 31. Iudg. 9. 16. Prov. 10. 4. & 12. 24. So the sen[illegible: 1+ letters]e is, He is conscious to himself that by his wicked life he hath prepared and stored up Calamities and Destruction for himself, and therefore he expected nothing less.

y He is assured of it from his own guilty Conscience.

Marginal references: Ps. 59. 15. & 109. 10.; Chap. 18. 12.