Job 15:29

[Yet] will he not remain rich, neither will his wealth endure, nor will he attain their perfection on earth.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

In Context

28And he dwelt in abandoned cities, in houses which none inhabited, which were destined to be ruinous heaps.

30He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.

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Cross References

Job 18:6The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

Job 20:22In the fulness of his abundance will distress assail him: every hand of [those he] troubled will come against him.

Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare garments [as plentifully] as the clay:

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 →

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