Tree of Life Version
Job 15:22
22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is destined for the sword.
Job 15:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
- New International Version (NIV)He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him.
Context of Job 15:22
20All his days the wicked suffers torment, and numbered are the years stored up for the tyrant. 21Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in a time of peace, marauders attack him. He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is destined for the sword. 23He wanders about for bread— ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is at hand. 24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king poised to attack,
Read all of Job 15Job 15:22 word by word
לֹא־יַאֲמִ֣ין שׁ֭וּב מִנִּי־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְצָפ֖וּי ה֣וּא אֱלֵי־חָֽרֶב׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:22
- Job 6:11“What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should endure?
- Job 9:16Even if I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He would listen to my voice.
- 2 Kings 6:33While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. So the king said, “Look! This evil is from Adonai—why should I wait for Adonai any longer?”
- Isaiah 8:21They will pass this way that are hard-pressed and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged and curse their king and their God. Whether they turn their faces upward
- Matthew 27:5After tossing the silver into the Temple sanctuary, he left. Then he went off and hanged himself.
- Job 20:24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze bow pierces him through.
Commentaries on Job 15:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22That he shall return out of darkness - If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the assassin. This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think the passage should be understood to signify that he has no hope of a resurrection; he can never escape from the tomb. This I doubt: in the days of the writer of this book, the doctrine of a future judgment was understood in every part of the East where the knowledge of the true…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness - Darkness is used in the Bible, as elsewhere, to denote calamity; and the meaning here is, that the wicked man has not confidence (יאמין לא lo' ya'amı̂yn ), that he shall return safely from impending danger. He is in constant dread of assassination, or of some fearful evil. He is never secure; his mind is never calm; he lives in constant dread. This is still an accurate description of a man with a…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. 22he is marked for the sword: The evil people may die by murder or by God's punishment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. darkness--namely, danger or calamity. Glancing at Job, who despaired of restoration: in contrast to good men when in darkness (Mi 7:8, 9). waited for of--that is, He is destined for the sword [Gesenius]. Rather (in the night of danger), "he looks anxiously towards the sword," as if every sword was drawn against him [Umbreit].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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