This verse begins another section on the fate of the wicked. Eliphaz argues that the wicked spend all their days writhing or tossing about in pain and anxiety. The term "ruthless" means "terror-striking", "giving the idea that Job was. tyrant who struck fear into other people" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 737).
Verse Job 15:20. _THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN_] This is a most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of misery; and he that _WILL sin MUST suffer_. One of the _Targums_ gives it a strange t...
TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN - That is, his sorrows are like the pains of parturition. Eliphaz means to say that he is a constant sufferer. ALL HIS DAYS - It seems difficult to see how they could have ever fo...
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...
WICKED MAN. lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. From Job 15:20 to Job 15:35 Eliphaz repeats what he had heard from tradition. TRAVAILETH. "he travaileth"....
The sense is, All the days of the wicked man he is in pain, And the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor, i. e., constantly and throughout his whole life, as long as it endures, the w...
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...
_JOB 15:20_, &C. _THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH_— This is a most beautiful image of the perpetual anxiety in which a tyrant lives: when he goes to sleep, he is afraid that he shall be murdered before morn...
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...
_THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN ALL HIS DAYS, AND THE NUMBER OF YEARS IS HIDDEN TO THE OPPRESSOR._ _ THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN ALL HIS DAYS, AND THE NUMBER OF YEARS IS HIDDEN TO THE OPP...
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...
AND THE NUMBER, etc.] RV 'even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.'...
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...
Eliphaz repeated the friends’ main idea. Wicked men always suffer a terrible fate. They will have an awful life and a terrible death....
TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN. — This and the following verses contain the result of this experience. Here, again, we have a highly-coloured and poetical description of the oppressor, true to the character of...
כָּל ־יְמֵ֣י רָ֭שָׁע ה֣וּא מִתְחֹולֵ֑ל וּ מִס
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...
The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number (m) of years is hidden to the oppressor. (m) The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience....
_Proud; uncertain. Hebrew, "in pain." (Haydock) --- Septuagint, "numbered," or few, Genesis xxxiv. 30. These are the maxims which Eliphaz had received in a vision, or from the ancients, ver. 17. The d...
(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...
THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN ALL [HIS] DAYS,.... Either to commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and even to weariness; and, agreeably to the metaphor used, he conceives it in his...
The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Ver. 20. _The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days_] He tormenteth himself, or thrustet...
_The wicked man travaileth with pain_ That is, lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. _The number of_ his _years...
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, writhing, twisting, and trembling in torments of one form or other, AND THE NUMBER OF YEARS IS HIDDEN TO THE OPPRESSOR, rather, a definite number of y...
ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
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...
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...
TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN, i.e. lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, and the torments of his own mind, and his manifold and dreadful outward calamities. THE NUMBER OF HIS YE...
Job 15:20 wicked H7563 writhes H2342 (H8711) days H3117 number H4557 years H8141 hidden H6845 (H8738
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 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:20 Eliphaz describes the WICKED MAN. He hopes that Job will see himself in the descriptions and will repent. ⇐...
_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...
Ecclesiastes 9:3; James 5:1; Luke 12:19; Psalms 90:12; Psalms 90:3;...
Pain — Lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. Hidden — He knows not how short the time of his life is, and there...