New Living Translation
Job 15:35
35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”
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
33They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form. 34For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”
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 7:14The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies.
- Isaiah 59:4No one cares about being fair and honest. The people’s lawsuits are based on lies. They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to sin.
- Hosea 10:13“But you have cultivated wickedness and harvested a thriving crop of sins. You have eaten the fruit of lies— trusting in your military might, believing that great armies could make your nation safe.
- Galatians 6:7Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.
- James 1:15These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, 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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