20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
20 Those who live by their own rules, not God's, can expect nothing but trouble, and the longer they live, the worse it gets.
20 The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
20 "The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives. Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:20
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read Job 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?