What Does Job 30:23 Mean in the King James?
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The “house appointed” is a mo’ed, a fixed meeting place, making death the appointment shared by all living.
THE MEANING
You face the same certainty named here: life moves toward death, described as the appointed house shared by every living one. The verse holds that end in view without softening its universality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that death belongs only to other people; it names mortality as the shared destination of all who live.
THE ROOT
מוֹעֵד
mo'ed
GROWS FROM
יעד
y-ʿ-d
To appoint or designate; to set a time or place for a meeting.
Mo’ed can name an appointed time, place, or meeting. So the house in this verse is more than a destination: it is the meeting place appointed for all living, exposing the certainty death holds for everyone.
ALSO GROWS
ya'ad: To appoint, designate, or set for a meeting.
יָעַד
The verb shows that a mo’ed is something designated, giving “appointed” its sense of a fixed meeting rather than an incidental event.
edah: A congregation or assembly.
עֵדָה
This related word names people gathered together; it echoes the meeting sense within the house appointed for all living.
THE PATTERN
Mortality is the common, appointed destination of every living person.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.“Feasts” here translates the same Hebrew word, mo’ed, as “appointed” in Job: it names appointed meetings. That shared root opens the phrase as a house of meeting for all living, giving death the stark force of a common appointment.
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