34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
34 The godless are fruitless - a barren crew; a life built on bribes goes up in smoke.
34 For the company of hypocrites will be barren, And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
34 For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:34
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?