God’s Word Translation
Job 15:35
35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their wombs produce deception.”
Job 15:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
- New International Version (NIV)They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."
- New King James Version (NKJV)They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit.”
Context of Job 15:35
33He will drop his unripened grapes like a vine and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree 34because a mob of godless people produces nothing, and fire burns up the tents of those who offer bribes. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their wombs produce deception.”
Read all of Job 15Job 15:35 word by word
הָרֹ֣ה עָ֭מָל וְיָ֣לֹד אָ֑וֶן וּ֝בִטְנָ֗ם תָּכִ֥ין מִרְמָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:35
- Psalms 7:14See how that person conceives evil, is pregnant with harm, and gives birth to lies.
- Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
- Hosea 10:13You have planted wickedness and harvested evil. You have eaten the fruit that your lies produced. You have trusted your own power and your many warriors.
- Galatians 6:7Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest.
- James 1:15Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death.
Commentaries on Job 15:35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 35They 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 travail with many pangs, (for sin is a sore labor), and at last their womb produces fraud or deception. This is an accursed birth, from an iniquitous conception. St. James gives the figure at full length, most beautifully touched in all its parts: When lust hath conceived it bringeth…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 35They 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.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. 3535. Bitter irony, illustrating the "unfruitfulness" (Job 15:34) of the wicked. Their conceptions and birthgivings consist solely in mischief, &c. (Is 33:11). prepareth--hatcheth.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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