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Job 15:31-35

JOB—NOTE ON Job 15:31 Assuming that his perspective is correct, Eliphaz mercilessly chooses words that focus on the loss of Job’s children as an indication of God’s judgment. Given what the reader knows about Job, this section ought to instill humility in any person who seeks to rebuke another. Job has endured not only his children’s deaths but also the condemning “comfort” of his friends.

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See also Job 15:31-35 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 15:31. _LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED_] 7. He has many _vain_ _imaginations_ of obtaining wealth, power, pleasure, and happiness; but he is _deceived_; and he finds that he has trusted בשוא...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED TRUST IN VANITY - The sense is, “Let him not trust in vanity. He will be deceived. Vanity will be his recompense.” The idea is, that a man should not confide in that which...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse reads, Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived: For vanity shall be his recompence. Similarly, "they that plow iniquity reap the same," ch. Job 4:8; Job 5:13. Eliphaz returns as in ot...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The disastrous end of the wicked man....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This doctrine itself. The passage gives a picture of the conscience of the wicked man filled with presentiments of evil, in opposition to such statements as that of Job, ch. Job 12:6, and to his whole...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Eliphaz instructs Job regarding the troubled conscience And the Disastrous Fate of the Wicked Man Having sufficiently rebuked Job's presumption and irreverence Eliphaz proceeds to take up his princip...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 466 THE FOLLY OF TRUSTING IS VANITY Job 15:31. _Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence_. THE friends of Job were enlightened and pious men; but th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED TRUST IN VANITY— _Let him not trust in prosperity; it is a mere illusion; for it will turn out nothing but vanity:_ Heath: who renders the next verse, _For his branch shal...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. The destiny of the ungodly shows the retributive justice of God. (Job 15:17-35) TEXT 15:17-35 17 I WILL SHOW THEE, HEAR THOU ME; And that which I have seen I will declare 18 (Which wise men hav...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED TRUST IN VANITY: FOR VANITY SHALL BE HIS RECOMPENCE._ Rather, 'let him not trust in vanity (or) he will be deceived,' etc. VANITY, х_ SHAAW'_ (H7723)] - that which is u...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself.' ACCOMPLISHED] RM 'paid in full.' HIS TIME] the natural time of his death. 32, 33. The speedy end of the wicked. 'His branch prematurely withers; h...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 15 ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job thought that many evil people are successful (Job 12:6). Eliphaz argued that their success was temporary. Their wealth would not last. Soon, they would lose everything (verse 29). Job had spoken...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED TRUST IN VANITY. — Or, _Let him not trust in vanity deceiving himself._ (Comp. James 1:26; 1 Samuel 12:21.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַל ־יַאֲמֵ֣ן _בַּ_†__†_שָּׁ֣יו_† נִתְעָ֑ה כִּי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let not him that is (t) deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. (t) He stands in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride will bring...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _That he. Hebrew and Septuagint, "for vanity shall be his reward." (Haydock) --- If he would repent, he might still be safe. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET NOT HIM THAT IS DECEIVED TRUST IN VANITY,.... Every wicked man is deceived, either by Satan, who deceives the whole world, deceived our first parents, and deceives all their posterity, not only pr...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity_ That is, in the vain and deceitful things of this world, such as power, riches, honour, &c., of which, and of the loss of them, he had been discoursing l...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, rather, let him not trust in vanity, he deceives himself; FOR VANITY SHALL BE HIS RECOMPENSE, everyone who trusts in the vain possessions of this world wi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of considerat...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    The evil man who trusts in worthless possessions will receive nothing of value....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 prospe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN VANITY, i.e. in the vain and deceitful things of this world, such as power, riches, honour, &c., of which, and of the loss of them, he had been largely discoursing; and now he subjoins a general ca...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 15:31 trust H539 (H8686) futile H7723 deceiving H8582 (H8738) futility H7723 reward H8545 not him -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly justifying himself. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service either to God, o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s counse...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 6:3; Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Hosea 8:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Vanity — In the vain and deceitful things of this world, he subjoins a general caution to all men to take heed of running into the same error and mischief. Vanity — Disappointment and dissatisfaction,...

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