Job 15:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ”

• Job 15:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He 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...

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• Job 15:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He believeth not that he shall return out of (n) darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. (n) Out of that misery to which he once fell.

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• Job 15:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  waited for of the sword . destined to the power of the sword.

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• Job 15:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. That he shall return out of darkness - If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the a...

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• Job 15:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He is waited for— He is marked out for, destined to. Heath.

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• Job 15:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. Darkness - namely, danger or calamity. Glancing at Job, who despaired of restoration: in contrast to...

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• Job 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness ,.... When he lies down at night he despairs of ever seeing the light of the morning, through fear of an enemy, a robber, a murderer, or of one...

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• Job 15:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. Ver. 22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness ] He despondeth and despaireth of a better...

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• Job 15:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A dreadful sound is in his ears Even when he feels no evil, he is tormented with perpetual fears and expectations of it, from a consciousness of his own guilt, and a sense of God's all-seeing eye a...

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• Job 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. When he falls into trouble, he despairs of God's mercy, and of deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience; which he speaks with particular reflection upon Job, who would receive no comfort...

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• Job 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - 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 15:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

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• Job 15:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 6:33 ; Isaiah 8:21 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Job 20:24 ; Job 20:25 ; Job 6:11 ; Job 9:16 ; Matthew 27:5

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• Job 15:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Believeth not — When he falls into trouble, he despairs of deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience. Waited for — Besides the calamity which is upon him, he is in constant expectation of gre...

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