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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 15:31

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity ,.... Every wicked man is deceived, either by Satan, who deceives the whole world, deceived our first parents, and deceives all their posterity, not only profane sinners, but many professors of religion also; or by their own hearts, which are deceitful and desperately wicked; or through the deceitfulness of sin, which promises profit, pleasure, and liberty, and issues in ruin, pain, and bondage; and through the deceitfulness of riches, which... 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 15:31

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity ; rather, let him not trust in vanity (or, in falsehood )' deceiving himself (see the Revised Version). All the supports and stays of the wicked are vanity—unsubstantial, futile, utterly vain and useless. It is only a man who "deceives himself" that can trust in them. For vanity shall be his recompense . Such as do so trust gain nothing by it; they sow vanity and reap vanity. read more

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