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Job 15:20 KJV
Job · chapter 15 · verse 20
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.Job 15:20 · King James Version
Job 15:20 in context
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- travailethchûwlproperly, to twist or whirlH2342 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- numbermiçpâra number, definite or indefinite (large, innumerableH4557 →
- hiddentsâphanto hideH6845 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-35