18 what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
18 (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
18 It's what wise men and women have always taught, holding nothing back from what they were taught
18 What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
18 And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers-
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:18
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?