Job 36:14
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
BSB
ASV
They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.
KJV
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
They die in youth - Exactly what the psalmist says, “Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,” Psa 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, “They shall die in the youth of their soul.” Their life is among the unclean - בקדשים bakedeshim, among the whores, harlots, prostitutes, and sodomites. In this sense the word is used, though it also signifies consecrated persons; but we know that in idolatry characters of this kind were consecrated to Baal and Ashtaroth, Venus, Priapus, etc. Mr. Good translates the rabble.
Unclean - Or, Sodomites; to whose destruction, he may allude. They shall die by some exemplary stroke of Divine vengeance. Yea, and after death, their life is among the unclean, the unclean spirits, the devil and his angels, forver excluded from the new Jerusalem, into which no unclean thing shall enter.
Same sentiment as Job 36:11, 12, expanded. hypocrites--or, the ungodly [MAURER]; but "hypocrites" is perhaps a distinct class from the openly wicked (Job 36:12). heap up wrath--of God against themselves (Ro 2:5). UMBREIT translates, "nourish their wrath against God," instead of "crying" unto Him. This suits well the parallelism and the Hebrew.
Rather (De 23:17), Their life is (ended) as that of (literally, "among") the unclean, prematurely and dishonorably. So the second clause answers to the first.
The walk8
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.
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Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
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But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
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Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
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Deuteronomy 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
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He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.