Job 15:34

For death is the witness of an ungodly man, 1 And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

In Context

33And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, 1 And let him fall as the blossom of the olive. 1

35And he shall conceive sorrows, 1 And his end shall be vanity, 1 And his belly shall bear deceit.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 8:3And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

Job 8:13Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: 1 For the hope of the ungodly shall perish. 1

Job 11:14If there is any iniquity in thy hands, 1 Put it far from thee, 1 And let not unrighteousness lodge in thy habitation. 1

Job 18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: 1 His excellency shall be sown with brimstone. 1

Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness abundant, 1 And thy sins innumerable? 1

Job 29:12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, 1 And helped the fatherless who had no helper. 1

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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