Job 15:30

Job 15:30 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
• English Standard Version (ESV)he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He will not depart from darkness; The flame will dry out his branches, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

Context of Job 15:30

28He lives in a town that is empty. No one else lives in the houses there. The buildings will soon fall down and they will become heaps of stones. 29He will not be rich. He will lose his valuable things. Everything that he has will disappear. When it becomes dark, he will not be able to escape. He will be like a tree that fire has burned. God's breath will blow him away! 31He may trust in useless things to save him. But he is deceiving himself. Any help that he receives will also be useless. 32Before he is old, his life will end. Like a tree that makes no leaves, he will have no success in life.

Job 15:30 word by word

לֹֽא־יָס֨וּר׀ מִנִּי־חֹ֗שֶׁךְ יֹֽ֭נַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁ שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת וְ֝יָס֗וּר בְּר֣וּחַ פִּֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He shall not departסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: departH5493
• out of darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822
• the flameשַׁלְהֶ֫בֶתshalhebeth · flameH7957
• shall dry upיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• his branchesיוֹנֶ֫קֶתyôneqeth · shootH3127
• and by the breathרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• of his mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310

Cross-references for Job 15:30

• Job 15:22He is afraid to go out in the dark. He thinks that someone may kill him.
• Job 10:21I will soon go to the dark place where there is no hope. I will never come back from that place.
• Job 18:5The light of a wicked person's life will stop shining. His fire will no longer burn brightly.
• Matthew 8:12But other people who think that God's kingdom belongs to them will not be there. God's angels will throw them into the dark places that are far away from God. There those people will weep very much. They will bite their teeth together.’
• Matthew 22:13The king said to his servants, “Tie his hands and his feet. Take him and throw him into the dark place outside. There, people will cry and they will bite their teeth together.”
• 2 Peter 2:17These false teachers promise good things that will never happen. They are like a dry well that has no water. They are like clouds in a storm which the wind blows away so that no rain comes. God will certainly send them to the darkest place in hell. He has kept that place ready for them.
• Jude 1:13Those false teachers are like water in the sea that the wind blows during a storm. The dirt that comes to the top of the water is like the disgusting things that those people do. They are like stars that have moved away from their proper places in the sky. God has prepared a completely dark place for them. God will keep them there for ever.
• Job 20:26All his riches disappear in the dark. God will send a fire to destroy him. It will destroy all his things that remain.
• Isaiah 30:33The Lord has already prepared a place to burn the bodies of the dead people. It is ready for the king of Assyria! There is a place for him that is deep and wide. There is plenty of wood for the fire. The Lord's breath will be like a stream of hot sulphur. He will breathe out on the heap of wood and the fire will burn!
• Ezekiel 15:4You can throw it on a fire to make the fire burn. But after the fire has finished, only a useless black piece of vine remains.
• Ezekiel 20:47Say to those forests, “Listen to this message from the Lord. This is what the Almighty Lord says: Listen! I will start a fire to burn you. The fire will destroy all the green trees and all the dry trees. Nobody will be able to stop that fire. From the dry land in the south, all the way to the north, the fire will burn everything.
• Matthew 25:41Then the king will say to those people who are at his left side, “Go away from me. God has decided to punish you. He has prepared a fire that will burn for ever. He has prepared it for Satan and his servants. You will also go into that fire.
• Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to do wrong things, you should cut it off. You will only have one hand, but you can have God's true life. It will be much worse for you if you keep both your hands and go to hell. There, the fire always burns and never stops.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:8and with a very hot fire. He will punish those people who do not know God. Yes, he will punish those people who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus.
• Job 4:9God destroys them with his breath. His anger is like a storm that blows them away.
• Isaiah 11:4But he will judge poor people with true justice. He will decide to do what is right for all the helpless people. He will have authority everywhere in the land. The words that he speaks will bring death to wicked people.

Commentaries on Job 15:30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30He shall not depart out of darkness - He shall be in continual afflictions and distress. The flame shall dry up his branches - his children shall be cut off by sudden judgments. 6. He shall pass away by the breath of his mouth; for by the breath of his mouth doth God slay the wicked.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30He shall not depart out of darkness - He shall not escape from calamity; see Job 15:22. He shall not be able to rise again, but shall be continually poor. The flame shall dry up his branches - As the fire consumes the green branches of a tree, so shall punishment do to him. This comparison is very forcible, and the idea is, that the man who has been prospered as a tree shall be consumed - as the fire consumes a tree when it passes through the branches…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-35Verses 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 prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30The flame, could refer to the sun burning or the flame of judgment from God (see 15:34; Numbers 16:31–35; Psalms 106:17–18; Ezekiel 20:47). the breath of God's mouth: This might be a desert wind or a direct "theophany" (a revelation of God’s presence) that caused the "fire" of Job 15:34.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. depart--that is, escape (Job 15:22, 23). branches--namely, his offspring (Job 1:18, 19; Psa 37:35). dry up--The "flame" is the sultry wind in the East by which plants most full of sap are suddenly shrivelled. his mouth--that is, God's wrath (Is 11:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:30

• Breath
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Flame
• Spirit
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary