Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:30 in other translations
| BSB | He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away. |
| YLT | He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! |
| DARBY | He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. |
| BBE | He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud. |
| Webster | He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. |
What does Job 15:30 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…
Job 15:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:30
- Job 4:9
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
- Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
- Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- Job 20:26
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
- Matthew 25:41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
- Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- Ezekiel 15:4-7
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
- Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
- Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
- Job 22:20
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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Context
- Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
- Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
- Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 15:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No se escapará de las tinieblas: la llama secará sus ramos, y con el aliento de su boca perecerá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il ne sortira pas des ténèbres; la flamme séchera ses rejetons, et il s’en ira par le souffle de sa bouche. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er entweicht nicht der Finsternis; seine Schößlinge versengt die Flamme; und er muß weichen durch den Hauch seines Mundes. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non recedet de tenebris: ramos ejus arefaciet flamma, et auferetur spiritu oris sui. |