Job 15:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

Job 15:20 —

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Cross-References

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Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
James 5:1-6
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. …
Luke 12:19-21
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. …
Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-35)

Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

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.