Job 15:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ”

• Job 15:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Travaileth with pain - That is, his sorrows are like the pains of parturition. Eliphaz means to say that he is a constant sufferer. All his days - It seems difficult to see how they could hav...

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• Job 15:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number (m) of years is hidden to the oppressor. (m) The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience.

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• Job 15:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wicked man . lawless one. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. From Job 15:20 to Job 15:35 Eliphaz repeats what he had heard from tradition. travaileth . "he travaileth".

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• Job 15:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. The wicked man travaileth with pain - This is a most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of...

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• Job 15:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Job 15:20 , &c. The wicked man travaileth — This is a most beautiful image of the perpetual anxiety in which a tyrant lives: when he goes to sleep, he is afraid that he shall be murdered be...

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• Job 15:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the...

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• Job 15:20 - 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...

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• Job 15:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Travaileth with pain. — This and the following verses contain the result of this experience. Here, again, we have a highly-coloured and poetical description of the oppressor, true to the character...

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• Job 15:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...

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• Job 15:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...

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• Job 15:20 - 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...

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• Job 15:20 - 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 s...

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• Job 15:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days ,.... Either to commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and even to weariness; and, agreeably to the metaphor used, he conceives it in h...

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• Job 15:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Ver. 20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days ] He tormenteth himself, or thrust...

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• Job 15:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The wicked man travaileth with pain That is, lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. The number of his year...

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• Job 15:20 - L. 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 consid...

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• Job 15:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        17 I will show 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, a...

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• Job 15:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Travaileth with pain, i.e. lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, and the torments of his own mind, and his manifold and dreadful outward calamities. The number of hi...

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• Job 15:20 - 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 cou...

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• Job 15:20 - 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...

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• Job 15:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 spea...

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• Job 15:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

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• Job 15:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 9:3 ; James 5:1-6 ; Luke 12:19-21 ; Psalms 90:12 ; Psalms 90:3 ; Psalms 90:4 ; Romans 8:22

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• Job 15:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Pain — Lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. Hidden — He knows not how short the time of his life is, and th...

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