Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:34 in other translations
| BSB | For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. |
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| WEB | For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. |
| ASV | For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery. |
| YLT | For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. |
| DARBY | For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. |
| BBE | For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire. |
| Webster | For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. |
What does Job 15:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
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 15:34 in the original Hebrew
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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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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.
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. |
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| 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. |