Job 15 · Verse 34

Job 15:34

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:34, King James Version

Job 15:34 in other translations

BSBFor the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
WEBFor the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
ASVFor the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
YLTFor the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
DARBYFor the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
BBEFor the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
WebsterFor the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

What does Job 15:34 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
34. Rather, The binding together of the hypocrites (wicked) shall be fruitless [Umbreit]. tabernacles of bribery--namely, dwellings of unjust judges, often reprobated in the Old Testament (Is 1:23). The "fire of God" that consumed Job's possessions (Job 1:16) Eliphaz insinuates may have been on account of Job's bribery as an Arab sheik or emir.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 34 The congregation of hypocrites - 11. Job is here classed with hypocrites, or rather the impious of all kinds. The congregation, or עדת adath, society, of such, shall be desolate, or a barren rock, גלמוד galmud. See this Arabic word explained in the note on Job 3:7 (note). Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery - 12. Another insinuation against Job, that he had perverted justice and judgment, and had taken bribes.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Job 15:34 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
עֲדַ֣ת'a.Data company ofH5712
חָנֵ֣ףcha.Nef[the] godlessH2611
גַּלְמ֑וּדgal.Mud[is] barrenH1565
וְ֝אֵ֗שׁve.'Eshand fireH784
אָכְלָ֥ה'a.khe.Lahit consumesH398
אָֽהֳלֵי\־'o.ho.lei-[the] tents ofH168
שֹֽׁחַד\׃Sho.chada bribeH7810

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Cross references for Job 15:34

  • Job 8:13

    So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

  • Job 27:8

    For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

  • Micah 7:2

    The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

  • Job 8:22

    They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  • Matthew 24:51

    And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Job 20:1

    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

  • Isaiah 33:14-15

    The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Job 36:13

    But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

  • Job 29:12-17

    Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. …

  • Amos 5:11-12

    Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • 1 Samuel 8:3

    And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

  • Job 12:6

    The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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the congregation.
8:13; 20:1; 27:8; 36:13; Isa 33:14,15; Mt 24:51
the tabernacles.
11:14; 12:6; 22:5-9; 29:12-17; 1Sa 8:3; 12:3; Mic 7:2; Am 5:11,12

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Context

  • Job 15:33

    He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Job 15:34

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

  • Job 15:35

    They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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Job 15:34 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque la sociedad de los hipócritas será asolada, y fuego consumirá las tiendas de soborno.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car la famille des impies sera stérile, et le feu dévorera les tentes où entrent les présents.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn der Hausstand des Ruchlosen ist unfruchtbar, und Feuer frißt die Zelte der Bestechung.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Congregatio enim hypocritæ sterilis, et ignis devorabit tabernacula eorum qui munera libenter accipiunt.