Job Chapter 15 verse 20 Holy Bible
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
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All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-35. - Schultens calls this "a magnificently elaborate oration, crowded with illustrations and metaphors, in which it is shown that the wicked cannot possibly escape being miserable, but that the punishment which they have so richly deserved assuredly awaits them, and is to be inflicted on them, as an example and terror to others, by a holy and just God, because, just as he loves virtue, so he pursues vice with a fierce and deadly hatred" ('Liber Jobi,' p. 104, edit. R. Grey). Verse 20. - The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days. Certainly an over-statement of the truth. With a much nearer approach to the facts of the case, the Psalmist remarked, "I was grieved at the wicked: I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity. For they are in no peril of death, but are lusty and strong. They come in no misfortune like other folk; neither are they plagued like other men" (Psalm 73:3-5). And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor; rather, even the number of years that is laid up for the oppressor. So Merx and the Revised Version. Another possible meaning is, "And a [small] number of years is laid up," etc. If we take the former view, we must regard the clause as exegetical of "all his days."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Travaileth with pain.--This and the following verses contain the result of this experience. Here, again, we have a highly-coloured and poetical description of the oppressor, true to the character of the speaker in Job 4:12, &c. We should read Job 15:20 : The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. It is not an independent statement, as in the Authorised Version. A sound of terror is for ever in his ears lest the spoiler should come upon him in his prosperity--he always seems to dread his war-swoop. And this condition of darkness within, which contrasts so painfully with his outward prosperity, he sees no escape from; he is over in fear of a sword hanging over him, like Damocles.
