Job 15

Job 15:2

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the cast wind?

Is it for a wise man, under a pretence of knowledge, to speak vain words, and to have his heart filled with unprofitable and harmful imaginations?

Job 15:4

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

I do now see that thou hast cast off the fear of God; and art not careful and devout to call upon God, in thy tribulation; yea, in all kind of inferred denial of the Providence of God, thou seemest to discourage others from calling upon him.

Job 15:20

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

The great tyrants of the world, however they may seem to flourish, yet have many secret girds and gripes of conscience, and are continually tormented within themselves; and yet, besides, they little know how long they shall be allowed to live upon earth; God keeps the stint of their life secret from them.

Job 15:26

He rumeth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his buckler.

He maketh violent and presumptuous opposition to God, as if he could grapple with and overcome the Almighty; and fearlessly runs upon the most eminent judgments of God.

Job 15:27

Because he covereth his face with fatness.

Because he lives at ease, and prospers in all his designs, so as, through too much pampering, his cheeks are covered with fatness.

Job 15:28

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, &c.

And he is able, through his power, to raise sumptuous buildings in those places, which others have forsaken as barren and uninhabitable.

Job 15:29

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

Yet, for all this, though he can for a glory do these great matters, this wealth of his shall not continue long; neither shall this his flourishing estate hold any long while upon the earth.

Job 15:30

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

He shall irrecoverably lie under those sad and remediless calamities, which are cast upon him; and if any hopes of comfort do begin to look forth, God shall presently scorch and defeat them by the flames of his displeasure, and shall utterly confound him by his just judgments.

Job 15:31

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity.

Let not the man therefore, that hath been heretofore carried away with the vain confidence in these earthly things, suffer himself to be so deceived any more.

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

That recompence of his shall be so accomplished, that he shall be cut off before his natural period; and his endeavours shall be blasted at their first putting forth, neither shall ever come to any perfection.

Job 15:33

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

He shall be as a vine, whose grape is perished in the very bud; and as an olive, whose flower is cast off at the first putting forth; so as his hopes shall never attain to any maturity.

Job 15:35

Their belly prepareth deceit.

Their secret thoughts do but, in the event, deceive themselves.