They conceive mischief - The meaning of this verse is, that they form and execute plans of evil. It is the characteristic of such men that they form such plans and live to execute them, and they must abide the consequences. All this was evidently meant for Job; and few things could be more trying to a man’s patience than to sit and hear those ancient apothegms, designed to describe the wicked, applied so unfeelingly to himself.
Verse Job 15:35. _THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF_] The figure here is both elegant and impressive. The wicked _conceive_ mischief, from the seed which Satan sows in their hearts; in producing which they _tra...
THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address _ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_ 2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7) 3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...
MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44. BELLY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for the thoughts produced by emotion....
Eliphaz instructs Job regarding the troubled conscience And the Disastrous Fate of the Wicked Man Having sufficiently rebuked Job's presumption and irreverence Eliphaz proceeds to take up his princip...
This doctrine itself. The passage gives a picture of the conscience of the wicked man filled with presentiments of evil, in opposition to such statements as that of Job, ch. Job 12:6, and to his whole...
The disastrous end of the wicked man....
Finally Eliphaz condenses into an expressive figure the general doctrine both of this and his former discourse, namely, that suffering and disaster follow, as by a law of nature, doing evil and wrong....
THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF, &C.— _Conceiving in misery, and bringing forth in sorrow, their belly hath at last proved a deception._ This whole description is evidently pointed at the situation of Job. His...
2. The destiny of the ungodly shows the retributive justice of God. (Job 15:17-35) TEXT 15:17-35 17 I WILL SHOW THEE, HEAR THOU ME; And that which I have seen I will declare 18 (Which wise men hav...
_THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF, AND BRING FORTH VANITY, AND THEIR BELLY PREPARETH DECEIT._ Bitter irony, illustrating the "unfruitfulness" (Job 15:34) of the wicked. Their conceptions and birth-givings cons...
THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 15 ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
Job thought that many evil people are successful (Job 12:6). Eliphaz argued that their success was temporary. Their wealth would not last. Soon, they would lose everything (verse 29). Job had spoken...
הָרֹ֣ה עָ֭מָל וְ יָלֹ֣ד אָ֑וֶן וּ֝ בִטְנָ֗ם
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is effected a...
“THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN” Job 15:1 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, J...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...
They (y) conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (y) Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction....
_Sorrow. Hebrew, "mischief." (Haydock) See Psalm vii. 15., and Isaias xlix. 4. --- The tree is known by its fruit. Eliphaz sufficiently insinuates, that he is speaking of Job. (Calmet) --- His, or "it...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us pause over what we have been reading of the aggravated afflictions of Jobadiah Was it not enough that the LORD was exercising his servant, but those three men must throw in...
(17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no st...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF,.... That is, such wicked persons as before described; they meditate sin in their minds, and contrive how to commit it, and form schemes within themselves to do mischief to othe...
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. Ver. 35. _They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity_] Here Elipbaz for a close, by an elegant and usual metaphor...
_For the congregation of hypocrites_ Their children, servants, friends, and dependants; _shall be desolate_ That is, utterly destroyed; _and fire_ Some eminent and terrible judgment of God, often expr...
ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
They conceive mischief, pregnant with misery, AND BRING FORTH VANITY, AND THEIR BELLY PREPARETH DECEIT, bearing it, bringing it forth, as a child of their wickedness. The point of this speech of Eliph...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of considerat...
VANITY: Or, iniquity...
17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospe...
THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF, i.e. they devise and contrive injurious and pernicious enterprises against others. VANITY,_ or iniquity, or injury, or trouble_; either, 1. To others; they execute what they h...
Job 15:35 conceive H2029 (H8800) trouble H5999 forth H3205 (H8800) futility H205 womb H990 prepares H3559 ...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly justifying himself. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service either to God, o...
Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:20 Eliphaz describes the WICKED MAN. He hopes that Job will see himself in the descriptions and will repent. ⇐...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:31 Assuming that his perspective is correct, Eliphaz mercilessly chooses words that focus on the loss of Job’s children as an indication of God’s judgment. Given what the reader kno...
_SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s counse...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...
Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...
Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4; Isaiah 59:5;...