God’s Word Translation
Job 15:20
20“The wicked person is tortured all his days. Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person.
Job 15:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- New International Version (NIV)All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
Context of Job 15:20
18I’ll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors. 19(The land was given to them alone, and no stranger passed through their land.) “The wicked person is tortured all his days. Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person. 21Terrifying sounds are in his ears. While he enjoys peace, the destroyer comes to him. 22He doesn’t believe he’ll return from the dark. He is destined ⌞to be killed⌟ with a sword.
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כָּל־יְמֵ֣י רָ֭שָׁע ה֣וּא מִתְחוֹלֵ֑ל וּמִסְפַּ֥ר שָׁ֝נִ֗ים נִצְפְּנ֥וּ לֶעָרִֽיץ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:20
- Romans 8:22We know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This is the tragedy of everything that happens under the sun: Everyone shares the same destiny. Moreover, the hearts of mortals are full of evil. Madness is in their hearts while they are still alive. After that, they join the dead.
- Psalms 90:3You turn mortals back into dust and say, “Return, descendants of Adam.”
- Luke 12:19Then I’ll say to myself, “You’ve stored up a lot of good things for years to come. Take life easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.” ’
- James 5:1Pay attention to this if you’re rich. Cry and moan about the misery that is coming to you.
Commentaries on Job 15:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20The 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 turn: - "All the days of the ungodly Esau, he was expected to repent, but he did not repent; and the number of years was hidden from the sturdy Ishmael." The sense of the original, מתחולל mithcholel, is he torments himself: he is a true heautontimoreumenos, or self-tormentor; and he…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Travaileth 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 formed this universal maxim. It is certainly not literally true now; nor was it ever. But in order to convey the doctrine that the wicked would be punished in as pointed and striking a manner as possible, it was made to assume this universal form - meaning that…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. 20-35Evil people experience everything that happened to Job (see 1:16–19): Attacks by thieves (15:21). Loss of possessions (15:29). Collapse of houses (15:28). Fire (15:30, 34).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. travaileth--rather, "trembleth of himself," though there is no real danger [Umbreit]. and the number of his years, &c.--This gives the reason why the wicked man trembles continually; namely, because he knows not the moment when his life must end.Read the comment
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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
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