Job 15:20 BSB — MannaFest

Job 15:20

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The wicked man travaileth with pain - This is a most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of misery; and he that Will sin Must suffer. One of the Targums gives it a strange turn: - “All the days of the ungodly Esau, he was expected to repent, but he did not repent; and the number of years was hidden from the sturdy Ishmael.” The sense of the original, מתחולל mithcholel, is he torments himself: he is a true heautontimoreumenos, or self-tormentor; and he alone is author of his own sufferings, and of his own ruin.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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. xii, 6, and because such are apt to promise themselves a longer and happier life than other men.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֣י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
רָ֭שָׁע	Ra.sho'	a wicked [person]	H7563 →
ה֣וּא	hu'	he	H1931 →
מִתְחוֹלֵ֑ל	mit.cho.Lel	[is] writhing in pain	H2342 →
וּמִסְפַּ֥ר	u.mis.Par	and [the] number of	H4557 →
שָׁ֝נִ֗ים	Sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
נִצְפְּנ֥וּ	nitz.pe.Nu	[which] they have been stored up	H6845 →
לֶעָרִֽיץ׃	le.'a.Ritz	for <the> ruthless [person]	H6184 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 24:1
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
leads to
- Acts 1:7
  Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Ecclesiastes 3:17
  I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
  For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
- 2 Peter 3:7–8
  And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Psalms 73:16–19
  When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Through
Job 27:13
This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
leads to
- Job 20:19–29
  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
- Isaiah 3:11
  Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Job 15:20–35
  A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job