Job 15:20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

◄ Job 15:20 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

English Standard Version
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

New American Standard Bible
"The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.

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

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

International Standard Version
"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

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

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. travaileth—rather, "trembleth of himself," though there is no real danger [Umbreit].

and the number of his years, &c.—This gives the reason why the wicked man trembles continually; namely, because he knows not the moment when his life must end.