Job 27 · Verse 15

Job 27:15

Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 27:15, King James Version

Job 27:15 in other translations

BSBHis survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
WEBThose who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
ASVThose that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.
YLTHis remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.
DARBYThose that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.
BBEWhen those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
WebsterThose that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

What does Job 27:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23

11-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Those that remain of him - שרידיו seridaiv, his remains, whether meaning himself personally, or his family. Shall be buried in death - Shall come to utter and remediless destruction. Death shall have his full conquest over them, and the grave its complete victory. These are no common dead. All the sting, all the wound, and all the poison of sin, remains: and so evident are God's judgments in his and their removal, that even widows shall not weep for them; the public shall not bewail them; for when the wicked perish there is shouting. Mr. Good, following the Chaldee, translates: Entombed in corruption, or in the pestilence. But I see no reason why we should desert the literal reading. Entombed in corruption gives no nervous sense in my judgment; for in corruption are the high and the low, the wicked and the good, entombed: but buried in death is at once nervous and expressive. Death itself is the place where he shall lie; he shall have no redemption, no resurrection to life; death shall ever have dominion over him. The expression is very similar to that in Luk 16:22 (note), as found in several versions and MSS.: The rich man died, and was buried in hell; and, lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he saw, etc. See my note there.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23

Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to…

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Job 27:15 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.

שְׂ֭רִידָיוse.ri.dovsurvivors hisH8300
בַּמָּ֣וֶתba.Ma.vetby <the> deathH4194
יִקָּבֵ֑רוּyi.ka.Ve.ruthey will be buriedH6912
וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יוve.'al.me.no.Tavand widows hisH490
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תִבְכֶּֽינָה\׃tiv.Kei.nahthey will weepH1058

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 27:15

  • Psalms 78:64

    Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

  • 1 Kings 16:3-4

    Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

  • Jeremiah 22:18

    Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

  • 1 Kings 21:21-24

    Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

  • 1 Kings 14:10-11

    Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Those.
1Ki 14:10,11; 16:3,4; 21:21-24
his widows.
Ps 78:64; Jer 22:18

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Context

  • Job 27:14

    If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • Job 27:15

    Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

  • Job 27:16

    Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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Job 27:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Los que le quedaren, en muerte serán sepultados; y no llorarán sus viudas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ceux qui restent après lui seront enterrés dans la mort, et ses veuves ne pleureront pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Seine Übriggebliebenen werden begraben durch den Tod, und seine Witwen weinen nicht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		qui reliqui fuerint ex eo sepelientur in interitu, et viduæ illius non plorabunt.