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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job's attention, which he had little reason to expect, he having given so little heed to and put so little value upon what Job had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time , Either the recompence or reward of his trusting vanity, in vain persons or things, the punishment of such a trust, the sorrows and troubles following upon it; these shall come upon the wicked man "before his day" F6 בלא יומו "ante diem suam", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. , as it may be rendered; before the day of his death, even before his old age; before the evil days come in a course of nature, and those years in which he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time - I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peribit; "He shall perish before his time; before his days are completed." He shall be removed by a violent death, and not live out half his days. 9. And his branch shall not be green - there shall be no scion from his roots; all his posterity shall fail. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:17-35

Eliphaz to Job: 2. More wisdom from the ancients. I. THE EXCELLENCE OF THIS WISDOM . 1 . Old ; i.e. derived from a remote antiquity. The traditionary lore about to he cited by Eliphaz had been manufactured by primeval sages, from whom it had been carefully transmittal to the "wise men" who had told it to Eliphaz. The "fathers," "unto whom alone the earth was given," and "among whom no stranger passed," were either patriarchal descendants of Noah prior to the time of Peleg,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:20-35

Schultens calls this "a magnificently elaborate oration, crowded with illustrations and metaphors, in which it is shown that the wicked cannot possibly escape being miserable, but that the punishment which they have so richly deserved assuredly awaits them, and is to be inflicted on them, as an example and terror to others, by a holy and just God, because, just as he loves virtue, so he pursues vice with a fierce and deadly hatred". read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:20-35

Warnings from the wisdom of experience. I. THE TERRIBLE TORMENTS OF THE WICKED . ( Job 15:20-24 .) 1 . Lifelong pain. Notwithstanding all appearances of ease and prosperity, the bad man only suffers. The sword seems ever suspended above the tyrant's head. The serpent is ever busy with the tooth of remorse at his heart. 2 . Dread fancies throng through every sound into his imagination; he is ever in terror of some sudden doom. He sees a darkness coming upon him from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time . "It [ i.e. the recompense] shall be accomplished [or, 'paid in full '] before its time [ i.e. before payment is due]." A vague threat, probably intended to signify that death will come upon the wicked man prematurely, before he has lived out halt the days of his natural life. And his branch shall not be green ; i.e. he shall wither and fade, like a tree not planted by the waterside ( Psalms 1:3 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time - Margin, “cut off.” The image here is that of a tree, which had been suggested in Job 15:30. Here it is followed up by various illustrations drawn from the flower, the fruit, etc., all of which are designed to denote the same thing - that a wicked man will not be permanently prosperous; he will not live and flourish as he would if he were righteous. He will be like a tree that is cut down before its proper time, or that casts its flowers and fruits and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 15:32-33

Job 15:32-33. It shall be accomplished Namely, that which was last mentioned, that vanity should be his recompense: before his time When, by the course of nature, and common providence, he might have continued and flourished much longer. And his branch His glory and prosperity, or his children; shall not be green Shall not continue to flourish as heretofore. He shall shake off his unripe grapes The wicked man, who, by his sins, is the author of his own ruin, shall be deprived of his... read more

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