New Living Translation
Job 15:26
26Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him.
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:
- New International Version (NIV)defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
- 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.
Context of Job 15:26
24That dark day terrifies them. They live in distress and anguish, like a king preparing for battle. 25For they shake their fists at God, defying the Almighty. Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him. 27“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous; their waists bulge with fat. 28But their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.
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יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּצַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:26
- 2 Chronicles 28:22Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 32:13“Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power?
- Job 16:12“I was living quietly until he shattered me. He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces. Then he set me up as his target,
- Genesis 49:8“Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you.
- Psalms 18:40You placed my foot on their necks. I have destroyed all who hated me.
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
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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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