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job 15:20-35

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Job 15:20-35

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

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20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21. A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23. He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. 25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26. He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: 27. Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks. 28. And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. 30. He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. 31. Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. 32. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33. He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. 34. For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Job 15:20-35 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 15:20

Theological / Devotional

The wicked man. Verses 20-35 comprise an elaborate oration, crowded with illustrations and metaphors, in which it is maintained that the wicked cannot possibly escape being miserable.

Travaileth. Job had declared, ‘They that provoke God are secure” (ch. 12:6). Eliphaz takes the opposite position. Both men seem to have overstated their case. Experience proves that the wicked may or may not be prosperous, and the righteous may or may not be afflicted.

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