Job 15:16

Drinketh] thirsts after, is greedy for.

17-35. Eliphaz describes, doubtless as a warning to Job, the troubled conscience and inevitable doom of the wicked.

18, 19. Eliphaz refers to a time when his ancestors had not mingled with other people, who would corrupt the purity of their wise sayings. His countrymen the Edomites, who were descended from Abraham, would have the same pride of race as their Hebrew cousins.

20-23. The haunting fears of the wicked oppressor.