Job 15:17-35
1599 Geneva Bible
17 I will tell thee: hear me, and I will declare that which I have seen:
18 Which wise men have told, as they have heard of their fathers, and have not kept it secret:
19 To whom alone the land was [a]given, and no stranger passed through them.
20 The wicked man is continually as one that travaileth of child, and the number [b]of years is hid from the tyrant.
21 A sound of fear is in his ears, and in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He believeth not to return out of [c]darkness: for he seeth the sword before him.
23 He wandereth [d]to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkness is prepared at hand.
24 Affliction and [e]anguish shall make him afraid: they shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made himself strong against the Almighty.
26 Therefore God shall run upon him, even upon his neck, and against the most thick part of his shield.
27 Because he hath covered his face with [f]his fatness, and hath collops in his flank.
28 Though he dwell [g]in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heaps,
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the [h]perfection thereof in the earth.
30 He shall never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall go away with the breath of his mouth.
31 He [i]believeth not that he erreth in vanity: therefore vanity shall be his change.
32 His branch shall not be green, but shall be cut off before his day.
33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sour [j]grape, and shall cast him off, as the olive doth her flower.
34 For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate, and fire shall devour the houses of [k]bribes.
35 For they [l]conceive mischief and bring forth vanity, and their belly hath prepared deceit.
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- Job 15:19 Who by their wisdom so governed, that no stranger invaded them, and so the land seemed to be given to them alone.
- Job 15:20 The cruel man is ever in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience.
- Job 15:22 Out of that misery whereunto he once falleth.
- Job 15:23 God doth not only impoverish the wicked oft times, but even in their prosperity he punisheth them with a greediness evermore to gather: which is as a beggary.
- Job 15:24 He showeth what weapons God useth against the wicked, which lift up themselves against him, to wit, terror of conscience, and outward afflictions.
- Job 15:27 That is, he was so puffed up with great prosperity and abundance of all things, that he forgat God: noting, that Job in his felicity had not the true fear of God.
- Job 15:28 Though he build and repair ruinous places to get him fame, yet God shall bring all to naught, and turn his great prosperity into extreme misery.
- Job 15:29 Meaning, that his sumptuous buildings should never come to perfection.
- Job 15:31 He standeth so in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride shall bring him to destruction.
- Job 15:33 As one that gathereth grapes before they be ripe.
- Job 15:34 Which were built or maintained by powling and bribery.
- Job 15:35 And therefore all their vain devises shall turn to their own destruction.
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