Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
BSB
ASV
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
KJV
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Ver. 35. They conceive woe, and bring forth iniquity, and their womb prepareth deceit. For he conceives 'woe,' when he devises wicked things; he 'brings forth iniquity,' when he has begun to fulfil what he has devised; by entertaining envy, he 'conceives woe;' by uttering slanders, he 'brings forth iniquity.' For it is grievous wickedness when he who is wicked strives to make others appear wicked, that he may himself thereby appear as holy, because he has shewn that others are not holy.
They conceive mischief - The meaning of this verse is, that they form and execute plans of evil. It is the characteristic of such men that they form such plans and live to execute them, and they must abide the consequences. All this was evidently meant for Job; and few things could be more trying to a man’s patience than to sit and hear those ancient apothegms, designed to describe the wicked, applied so unfeelingly to himself.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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James 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave…
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Hosea 10:13You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
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As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
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Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
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Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.