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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Job 15:30

He shall not depart out of darkness His misery shall have no end. The flame God's anger and judgment upon him. Shall dry up his branches His wealth, and power, and glory, wherewith he was encompassed, as trees are with their branches. By the breath of his mouth, &c. This expression intimates, with how much ease God subdueth his enemies: his word, his blast, one act of his will, is sufficient. Shall he go away Hebrew, go back: that is, run away from God faster than he ran upon him, Job 15:26. So it is a continuation of the former metaphor of a conflict between two persons.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 15:30. _HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS_] 4. He shall be in continual afflictions and distress. 5. _The flame shall dry up his_ _branches _- his _children_ shall be cut off by sudden j...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS - He shall not escape from calamity; see Job 15:22. He shall not be able to rise again, but shall be continually poor. THE FLAME SHALL DRY UP HIS BRANCHES - As the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address _ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_ 2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7) 3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BREATH. Hebrew. _Ruach._...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Advance on Job 15:29, describing the sinner's actual destruction. The figures are common; on _darkness_, cf. Job 15:22; the _flame_is the scorching sun or glowing wind; _breath_of his mouth, i. e., Go...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS; THE FLAME SHALL DRY UP HIS BRANCHES, AND BY THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH_ _ HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS; THE FLAME SHALL DRY UP HIS BRANCHES, AND BY THE BREATH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:30 his (b-20) That is, the Almighty's (ver. 25)....

  • 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

    BY THE BREATH, etc.] God's wrath will destroy him like a withering sirocco....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS. — See Job 15:22. “By the breath of his mouth shall he go away.” What this means is not very clear: probably as in Job 11:20; or, “When he expires it shall be the e...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־יָס֨וּר ׀ מִנִּי ־חֹ֗שֶׁךְ יֹֽ֭נַקְתֹּו תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN” Job 15:1 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, J...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no st...

  • 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

    HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS,.... Out of the darkness of poverty, calamity, and distress he comes into, and, indeed, he despairs of it himself, as in Job 15:22; and in a spiritual sense he depa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. Ver. 30. _He shall not depart out of darkness_] But be held under remediless...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He shall not depart, not escape, OUT OF DARKNESS; THE FLAME SHALL DRY UP HIS BRANCHES, a parching heat withering his shoots, destroying his hopes for new gains, AND BY THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH SHALL HE...

  • 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

    Darkness will overtake him, fire will destroy his crops, and he will be blown away by the anger of God's breath. Their prosperity will vanish, "like flames that reduce. forest to ashes" _(Strauss p. 1...

  • 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

    HE SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF DARKNESS; his misery shall have no end. THE FLAME; God's anger and judgment upon him. HIS BRANCHES; either, 1. His children; or, 2. Wealth, and power, and glory, wherewith...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 15:30 depart H5493 (H8799) darkness H2822 flame H7957 out H3001 (H8762) branches H3127 breath H7307 mouth...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:20 Eliphaz describes the WICKED MAN. He hopes that Job will see himself in the descriptions and will repent. ⇐...

  • 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

    2 Peter 2:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Ezekiel 15:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Depart — His misery shall have no end. Flame — God's anger and judgment upon him. Branches — His wealth, and power, and glory, wherewith he was encompassed, as trees are with their branches. His mouth...

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