Job 15:34
For the assembly of hypocrites will remain desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
33He will shake off like the vine his unripe grapes, and cast off like the olive his blossoms.
35They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:3But his sons walked not in his ways, and they inclined after their own advantage, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
Job 8:13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
Job 11:14If wrong be in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tents.
Job 18:15It will dwell in his tent, because it is no more his: there will be strewed sulphur on his habitation.
Job 22:5Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities?
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
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 →