Job 15:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"The wicked person is tortured all his days. Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

ASV:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

BBE:

The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

DBY:

All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

ERV:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

JPS:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

WBS:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

WEB:

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

YLT:

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Job 15:20 Cross References

XREF:

Job 15:24 "Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

Job 24:1 "Why are times not stored up by the Almighty, And why do those who know Him not see His days?

Job 27:13 "This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number {m} of years is hidden to the oppressor.
(m) The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience.

WES:

15:20 Pain - Lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. Hidden - He knows not how short the time of his life is, and therefore lives in continual fear of losing it. Oppressor - To the wicked man: he names this one sort of them, because he supposed Job to be guilty of this sin, in opposition of what Job had affirmed of the safety of such persons, chap.12:6, and because such are apt to promise themselves a longer and happier life than other men.

MHC:

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 uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?

CONC:

Allotted Cruel Evil Hidden Laid Numbered Oppressor Pain Paining Ruthless Stored Suffers Terrible Torment Tormented Travaileth Violent Wicked Writhes

Allotted Cruel Evil Hidden Laid Numbered Oppressor Pain Paining Ruthless Small Stored Suffers Terrible Torment Tormented Travaileth Violent Wicked Writhes

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