For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Rather, The banding together of the hypocrites (wicked) shall be fruitless (Umbreit). Maurer translates, 'the family of the wicked shall be barren' - i:e., without offspring. I prefer this. Tabernacles of bribery-namely, dwellings of unjust judges, often reprobated in the Old Testament (Isaiah 1:23). No dwelling shall be left to record their past existence. The abodes wherein were treasured their unjust gains shall be destroyed, as well as the wicked themselves. The "fire of God" that consumed Job's possessions (Job 1:16; Job 1:19), and the winds that destroyed his children and the house, Eliphaz insinuates may have been on account of Job's bribery as an Arab sheikh or emir (cf. Job 18:15; Job 20:26; Job 22:20).