Job 15:30
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
Cross References
Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
Job 18:18He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 22:20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
Isaiah 11:4but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Ezekiel 15:4Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?
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 →