Job 15:26

Job 15:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
• English Standard Version (ESV)running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him.

Context of Job 15:26

24Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack, 25because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty, defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield. 27“Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh, 28he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

Job 15:26 word by word

יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּצַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He runnethרוּץrûts · to run: runH7323
• neckצַוָּארtsavvâ'r tsavvâr tsavvârôn tsavvâ'râh · neckH6677
• upon the thickעֲבִי‛ăbîy ‛ŏbîy · thicknessH5672
• bossesגַּבgab · back/rim/browH1354
• of his bucklersמָגֵןmâgên meginnâh · shieldH4043

Cross-references for Job 15:26

• 2 Chronicles 28:22In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the Lord.
• 2 Chronicles 32:13“Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand?
• Job 16:12All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
• Genesis 49:8“Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.
• Psalms 18:40You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.

Commentaries on Job 15:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26He runneth upon him - Calmet has properly observed that this refers to God, who, like a mighty conquering hero, marches against the ungodly, rushes upon him, seizes him by the throat, which the mail by which it is encompassed cannot protect; neither his shield nor spear can save him when the Lord of hosts comes against him.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26He runneth upon him - That is, upon God. The image here is taken from the mode in which people rushed into battle. It was with a violent concussion, and usually with a shout, that they might intimidate their foes, and overcome them at first, with the violence of the shock. The mode of warfare is now changed, and it is the vaunted excellency of modern warfare that armies now go deliberately and calmly to put each other to death. Even “on his neck…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. 2626. on his neck--rather, "with outstretched neck," namely, that of the rebel [Umbreit] (Psa 75:5). upon ... bucklers--rather, "with--his (the rebel's, not God's) bucklers." The rebel and his fellows are depicted as joining shields together, to form a compact covering over their heads against the weapons hurled on them from a fortress [Umbreit and Gesenius].Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:26

• Blasphemy
• Boss
• Infidelity
• Shield
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Bosses
• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Boss
• Eliphaz (2)
• Job, Book of

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