Job 15:29
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
Cross References
Job 18:6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
Job 20:22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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 →