Job 15:21 Explained in Context

Verse 17. ¹⁷ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

Verse 18. ¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

Verse 19. ¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

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

Verse 21. ²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Verse 22. ²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Verse 23. ²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Verse 24. ²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Verse 25. ²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

Verse 26. ²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

Verse 27. ²⁷ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Verse 28. ²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

Verse 29. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

Verse 30. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Verse 31. ³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Verse 32. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

Verse 33. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Verse 34. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

Verse 35. ³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.