Job 15:34
For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
33He shall wrong—like a vine—his sour grapes, and shall cast off—as an olive-tree—his blossom.
35Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:3Howbeit his sons walked not in his ways, but stooped to extortion,—and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Job 8:13So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:
Job 11:14If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,
Job 18:15There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Job 22:5Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, [are not] thine iniquities?
Job 29:12Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;
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 →