Job 15:30
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
Cross References
Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 22:20‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
Ezekiel 15:4No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?
Matthew Henry on Job 15:18-35
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, and no stranger passed among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 23 He wandereth… Read the whole commentary →