New Revised Standard Version
They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;

Contemporary English Version
They scrounge around for food, all the while dreading the approaching darkness.

New American Bible
A wanderer, food for vultures, he knows destruction is imminent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

wandereth

Job 30:3,4 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. . . .

Genesis 4:12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Psalm 59:15 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Psalm 109:10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Lamentations 5:6,9 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. . . .

Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: . . .

the day

Job 18:5,6,12,18 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Ecclesiastes 11:8 If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must remember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years of generation and generation.

Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?

Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds,

Hebrews 10:27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.