{"id":13235,"date":"2022-09-24T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-job-1520\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:55:17","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-job-1520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-job-1520\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 20<\/strong>. The sense is,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> All the days of the wicked man he is in pain,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> And the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor,<\/p>\n<p> i. e., constantly and throughout his whole life, as long as it endures, the wicked man is in pain (or, torments himself). The word &ldquo;laid up&rdquo; means appointed, reserved, for the oppressor. This is said against Job&rsquo;s statement, <span class='bible'>Job 12:6<\/span>, that the tents of robbers were in peace.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 20 35<\/strong>. This doctrine itself. The passage gives a picture of the conscience of the wicked man filled with presentiments of evil, in opposition to such statements as that of Job, ch. <span class='bible'>Job 12:6<\/span>, and to his whole claims regarding himself.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Travaileth with pain &#8211; <\/B>That is, his sorrows are like the pains of parturition. Eliphaz means to say that he is a constant sufferer.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>All his days &#8211; <\/B>It seems difficult to see how they could have ever formed this universal maxim. It is certainly not literally true now; nor was it ever. But in order to convey the doctrine that the wicked would be punished in as pointed and striking a manner as possible, it was made to assume this universal form &#8211; meaning that the life of the wicked would be miserable. There is some reason to think that this and what follows to the close of the chapter, is an ancient fragment which Eliphaz rehearses as containing the sentiments of a purer age of the world.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor &#8211; <\/B>Wemyss renders this, and a reckoning of years is laid up for the violent. So, also, Dr. Good. The Vulgate renders it, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. Rosenmuller, Cocceius, Drusius, and some others suppose that there should be understood here and repeated the clause occurring in the first hemistich, and that it means, and in the number of years which are laid up for the violent man, he is tortured with pain. Luther renders it, and to a tyrant is the number of his years concealed. It is difficult to tell what the passage means. To me, the most probable interpretation is one which I have not met with in any of the books which I have consulted, and which may be thus expressed, the wicked man will be tormented all his days. To one who is an oppressor or tyrant, the number of his years is hidden. He has no security of life. He cannot calculate with any certainty on its continuance. The end is hid. A righteous man may make some calculation, and can see the probable end of his days. He may expect to see an honored old age. But tyrants are so often cut down suddenly; they so frequently perish by assassination, and robbers are so often unexpectedly overcome, that there is no calculation which can be formed in respect to the termination of their course. Their end is hid. They die suddenly and disappear. This suits the connection; and the sentiment is, in the main, in accordance with facts as they occur.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>20<\/span>. <I><B>The wicked man travaileth with pain<\/B><\/I>] This is a most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of misery; and he that <I>WILL sin MUST suffer<\/I>. One of the <I>Targums<\/I> gives it a strange turn: &#8211; &#8220;All the days of the ungodly Esau, he was expected to repent, but he did not repent; and the number of years was hidden from the sturdy Ishmael.&#8221; The sense of the original,  <I>mithcholel<\/I>, is <I>he torments himself<\/I>: he is a true <I>heautontimoreumenos<\/I>, or self-tormentor; and he alone is author of his own sufferings, and of his own ruin.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Travaileth with pain, <\/B>i.e. lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of Gods wrath, and the torments of his own mind, and his manifold and dreadful outward calamities. <\/P> <P><B>The number of his years is hidden, <\/B>i.e. he knows not how short the time of his tyranny and life is, and therefore lives in continual fear of losing them. The number of a good mans years are also hid from him as well as they are from the wicked men; but to those this is a great torment and mischief; whereas it is not so to him. Or, <I>and a few years<\/I> (Heb. <I>a number of years<\/I>, put by a common hypallage for <I>years of number<\/I>; as few years are called, <span class='bible'>Job 16:22<\/span>, because they are soon numbered; <I>as men of number<\/I>, is put for a few men, <span class='bible'>Gen 34:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Deu 4:27<\/span>; <span class='bible'>33:6<\/span>) <I>are laid or treasured up<\/I>, i.e. are allotted to him by Gods secret counsel; for God cuts off such men in the midst of their days. <span class='bible'>Psa 55:23<\/span>; whereas long life is promised, and commonly given, to righteous men. <\/P> <P><B>To the oppressor, <\/B>i.e. to the wicked man; but he names this one sort of them, the oppressors, partly, because he supposed Job to be guilty of this sin, <span class='bible'>Job 22:6<\/span>; partly, in opposition to what Job had affirmed of the safety and happiness of such persons, <span class='bible'>Job 12:6<\/span>; and partly, because such are most apt to expect and promise to themselves a longer and happier life than other men, because of their singular preservatives and advantages of life above other men. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>20. travaileth<\/B>rather,&#8221;trembleth of himself,&#8221; though there is no real danger[UMBREIT]. <\/P><P>       <B>and the number of <\/B><I><B>his<\/B><\/I><B>years,<\/B> c.This gives the reason why the wicked man tremblescontinually namely, because he knows not the moment when his lifemust end.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days<\/strong>,&#8230;. Either to commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and even to weariness; and, agreeably to the metaphor used, he conceives it in his heart, he travails with it in his mind, and he brings forth falsehood and a lie, what disappoints him, and which issues in death, eternal death, see <span class='bible'>Ps 7:14<\/span>; or to get wealth and riches, in obtaining of which he pierces himself through with many sorrows; and these being like thorns, in using them he gets many a scratch, and has a good deal of trouble, pain, and uneasiness in keeping them, insomuch that he cannot sleep comfortably through fear of losing them; wherefore he does not enjoy that peace, comfort, and happiness, it may be thought he does; and, besides all this, he has many an inward pain and gripe of conscience for his many sins and transgressions, which lie at the door of conscience, and when it is opened rush in, and make sad work, and put him to great pain and distress; for otherwise this cannot be said of every wicked man, that they are in outward pain and distress, or in uncomfortable circumstances, at least in appearance; for of some it is said, &#8220;they are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men&#8221;, <span class='bible'>Ps 73:5<\/span>; they live wholly at ease, and are quiet, and die so, at least seemingly: some restrain this to some particular person whom Eliphaz might have in view; the Targum paraphrases it of wicked Esau, who it was expected would repent, but did not; others think that he had in his eye some notorious oppressor, that had lived formerly, or in his time, as Nimrod, the mighty hunter and tyrant, or Chedorlaomer, who held for some years several kings in subjection to him; but it is much if he does not design Job himself; however, he forms the description of the wicked man in such a manner, that it might as near as possible suit his case, and in many things he plainly refers to it: and this is a sad case indeed, for a wicked man to travail in pain all his days in this life, and in the world to come to suffer the pains of hell fire to all eternity; the pains of a woman, to which the allusion is, are but short at most, but those of the wicked man are for life, yea, for ever; and among the rest of his pains of mind, especially in this world, what follows is one, and which gives much uneasiness: and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor; Mr. Broughton renders it, soon numbered years; that is, few, as the years of man&#8217;s life at most are but few, and those of the oppressor fewer still, since bloody and deceitful men do not live out half the days of the years of man&#8217;s life, but are oftentimes cut off in the midst of their days; and be they more or fewer, they are all numbered and fixed, and the number of them is with God, and him only; they are fixed and settled by the decree of God, and laid up in his purposes, and reserved for the oppressor; but they are a secret to him, he does not know how long he shall live, or how soon he may die, and then there will be an end of his oppression and tyranny, and of his enjoyment of his wealth and riches unjustly got; and this frets him, and gives him pain, and makes him uneasy; whereas a good man is easy about it, he is willing to wait his appointed time, till his change comes; he is not so much concerned to know the time of his death as to be in a readiness for it. The Targum paraphrases this of Ishmael the mighty: the oppressor is the same with the wicked man in the preceding clause.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 20 So long as the ungodly liveth he suffereth,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:9em'> And numbered years are reserved for the tyrant.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 21 Terrors sound in his ears;<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:9em'> In time of peace the destroyer cometh upon him.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 22 He believeth not in a return from darkness,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:9em'> And he is selected for the sword.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 23 He roameth about after bread: &ldquo;Ah! where is it?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:9em'> He knoweth that a dark day is near at hand for him.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 24 Trouble and anguish terrify him;<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:9em'> They seize him as a king ready to the battle.<\/p>\n<p> All the days of the ungodly he (the ungodly) is sensible of pain.  stands, like <em> Elohim<\/em> in <span class='bible'>Gen 9:6<\/span>, by the closer definition; here however so, that this defining ends after the manner of a premiss, and is begun by  after the manner of a conclusion.  , he writhes, i.e., suffers inward anxiety and distress in the midst of all outward appearance of happiness. Most expositors translate the next line: and throughout the number of the years, which are reserved to the tyrant. But (1) this parallel definition of time appended by <em> waw<\/em> makes the sense drawling; (2) the change of  (oppressor, tyrant) for  leads one to expect a fresh affirmation, hence it is translated by the lxx:      . The predicate is, then, like <span class='bible'>Job 32:7<\/span>, comp. <span class='bible'>Job 29:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Job 2:4<\/span> (Ges. 148), <em> per <\/em> <em> attractionem <\/em> in the <em> plur<\/em>. instead of in the sing., and especially with  followed by <em> gen. plur.;<\/em> this attraction is adopted by our author, <span class='bible'>Job 21:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Job 38:21<\/span>. The meaning is not, that numbered, i.e., few, years are secretly appointed to the tyrant, which must have been <em> sh&#8217;noth mispar ,<\/em> a reversed position of the words, as <span class='bible'>Job 16:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Num 9:20<\/span> (vid., Gesenius&#8217; <em> Thes.<\/em>); but a (limited, appointed) number of years is reserved to the tyrant (  as <span class='bible'>Job 24:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Job 21:19<\/span>, comp.  , <span class='bible'>Job 20:26<\/span>; Mercerus: <em> occulto decreto definiti <\/em>), after the expiration of which his punishment begins. The thought expressed by the Targ., Syr., and Jerome would be suitable: and the number of the years (that he has to live unpunished) is hidden from the tyrant; but if this were the poet&#8217;s meaning, he would have written  , and must have written  .<\/p>\n<p> With regard to the following <span class='bible'>Job 15:21-24<\/span>, it is doubtful whether only the evil-doer&#8217;s anxiety of spirit is described in amplification of   , or also how the terrible images from which he suffers in his conscience are realized, and how he at length helplessly succumbs to the destruction which his imagination had long foreboded. A satisfactory and decisive answer to this question is hardly possible; but considering that the real crisis is brought on by Eliphaz later, and fully described, it seems more probable that what has an objective tone in <span class='bible'>Job 15:21-24<\/span> is controlled by what has been affirmed respecting the evil conscience of the ungodly, and is to be understood accordingly. The sound of terrible things (startling dangers) rings in his ears; the devastator comes upon him (  <em> seq. acc.<\/em> as <span class='bible'>Job 20:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Pro 28:22<\/span>; comp. <span class='bible'>Isa 28:15<\/span>) in the midst of his prosperity. He anticipates it ere it happens. From the darkness by which he feels himself menaced, he believes not (  <em> seq. infin.<\/em> as <span class='bible'>Psa 27:13<\/span>,  , of confident hope) to return; i.e., overwhelmed with a consciousness of his guilt, he cannot, in the presence of this darkness which threatens him, raise to the hope of rescue from it, and he is really &#8211; as his consciousness tells him &#8211;  (like  , <span class='bible'>Job 41:25<\/span>; Ges. 75, rem. 5; <em> Keri<\/em>  , which is omitted in our printed copies, contrary to the testimony of the Masora and the authority of correct MSS), spied out for, appointed to the sword, i.e., of God (<span class='bible'>Job 19:29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 31:8<\/span>), or decreed by God. In the midst of abundance he is harassed by the thought of becoming poor; he wanders about in search of bread, anxiously looking out and asking where? (abrupt, like  , <span class='bible'>Job 9:19<\/span>), i.e., where is any to be found, whence can I obtain it? The lxx translates contrary to the connection, and with a strange misunderstanding of the passage:      (   , food for the vulture). He sees himself in the mirror of the future thus reduced to beggary; he knows that a day of darkness stands in readiness (  , like <span class='bible'>Job 18:12<\/span>), is at his hand, i.e., close upon him (  , elsewhere in this sense  , <span class='bible'>Psa 140:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Sa 19:3<\/span>, and  , <span class='bible'>Job 1:14<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p> In accordance with the previous exposition, we shall now interpret   , <span class='bible'>Job 15:24<\/span>, not of need and distress, but subjectively of fear and oppression. They come upon him suddenly and irresistibly; it seizes or overpowers him (  with neutral subject; an unknown something, a dismal power) as a king   . lxx     , like a leader falling in the first line of the battle, which is an imaginary interpretation of the text. The translation of the Targum also, <em> sicut regem qui paratus est ad scabellum <\/em> (to serve the conqueror as a footstool), furnishes no explanation. Another Targum translation (in Nachmani and elsewhere) is: <em> sicut rex qui paratus est circumdare se legionibus <\/em>. According to this,  comes from  , to surround, be round (comp.  , whence  , Assyr. <em> cudar <\/em>,  , perhaps also  , Syr.  , whence <em> ch e dor <\/em>, a circle, round about); and it is assumed, that as  signifies a ball (not only in Talmudic, but also in <span class='bible'>Isa 22:18<\/span>, which is to be translated: rolling he rolleth thee into a ball, a ball in a spacious land), so  , a round encampment, an army encamped in a circle, synon. of  . In the first signification the word certainly furnishes no suitable sense in connection with  ; but one may, with Kimchi, suppose that  , like the Italian <em> torniamento<\/em>, denotes the circle as well as the tournament, or the round of conflict, i.e., the conflict which moves round about, like tumult of battle, which last is a suitable meaning here. The same appropriate meaning is attained, however, if the root is taken, like the Arabic <em> kdr <\/em>, in the signification <em> turbidum esse <\/em> (comp.  , <span class='bible'>Job 6:16<\/span>), which is adopted of misfortunes as troubled experiences of life (according to which Schultens translates: <em> destinatus est ad turbulentissimas fortunas ,<\/em> beginning a new thought with  , which is not possible, since  by itself is no complete figure), and may perhaps also be referred to the tumult of battle, <em> tumultus bellici conturbatio <\/em> (Rosenm.); or of, with Fleischer, one starts from another turn of the idea of the root, viz., to be compressed, solid, thick, which is a more certain way gives the meaning of a dense crowd.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:1.8em'> (Note: The Arab. verb <em> kdr <\/em> belongs to the root <em> kd <\/em>, to smite, thrust, <em> quatere, percutere, tundere, trudere;<\/em> a root that has many branches. It is I. transitive <em> cadara<\/em> (fut. <em> jacduru<\/em>, inf. <em> cadr<\/em>) &#8211; by the non-adoption of which from the original lexicons our lexicographers have deprived the whole etymological development of its groundwork &#8211; in the signification to <em> pour, hurl down, pour out,<\/em> e.g., <em> cadara-l-ma,<\/em> he has spilt, poured out, thrown down the water; hence in the medial VII. form incadara intransitive, to fall, fall down, chiefly of water and other fluids, as of the rain which pours down from heaven, of a cascade, and the like; then improperly of a bird of prey which shoots down from the air upon its prey (e.g., in the poetry in Beidhwi on <em> Sur<\/em>. 81, 2: &ldquo;The hawk saw some bustards on the plain <em> f&#8217;ancadara<\/em>, and rushed down&rdquo;); of a hostile host which rushes upon the enemy first possible signification for  ]; of a man, horse, etc., which runs very swiftly, <em> effuse currit, effuso curru ruit;<\/em> of the stars that shall fall from heaven at the last day (Sur. 81, 2). Then also II. intransitive <em> cadara<\/em> (fut. <em> jacdiru<\/em>) with the secondary form <em> cadira<\/em> (fut. <em> jacdaru<\/em>) and <em> cadura<\/em> (fut. <em> jacduru<\/em>), prop. to be shaken and jolted; then also of fluid things, mixed and mingled, made turgid, unclean, i.e., by shaking, jolting, stirring, etc., with the dregs (the <em> cudre<\/em> or <em> cudde<\/em>); then gen. <em> turbidum<\/em>, <em> non limpidum<\/em> (<em> opp<\/em>. Arab. <em> sf&#8217; <\/em>), with a similar transition of meaning to that in <em> turbare<\/em> (comp. <em> deturbare<\/em>) and the German <em> trben <\/em> (comp. <em> traben <\/em> or <em> trappen<\/em>, <em> treiben<\/em>, <em> treffen <\/em>). The primary meaning of the root takes another III. turn in the derived adjectives <em> cudur<\/em>, <em> cudurr<\/em>, <em> cundur<\/em>, <em> cundir<\/em>, <em> compressed<\/em>, <em> solid<\/em>, <em> thick<\/em>; the last word with us (Germans) forms a transition from <em> cadir<\/em>, <em> cadr<\/em>, <em> cadr<\/em>, dull, slimy, yeasty, etc., inasmuch as we speak of <em> dickes Bier <\/em> (thick beer), etc., <em> cerevisia spissa<\/em>, <em> de la bire paisse <\/em>. Here the point of contact of the word  , tumult of battle,   , seems indicated: a dense crowd and tumult, where one is close upon another; as also  ,  , signify not reciprocal destruction, slaughter, but to press firmly and closely upon one another, a dense crowd. &#8211; Fl.)<\/p>\n<p> Since, therefore, a suitable meaning is obtained in two ways, the natural conjecture, which is commended by <span class='bible'>Pro 6:11<\/span>,   , <em> paratus ad hastam <\/em> = <em> peritus hastae <\/em> (Hupf.), according to <span class='bible'>Job 3:8<\/span>) where  =  ), may be abandoned. The signification <em> circuitus <\/em> has the most support, according to which Saadia and Parchon also explain, and we have preferred to translate round of battle rather than tumult of conflict; Jerome&#8217;s translation, <em> qui praeparatur ad praelium ,<\/em> seems also to be gained in the same manner.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(20) <strong>Travaileth with pain.<\/strong>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 <span class='bible'>Job. 4:12<\/span>, &amp;c. We should read <span class='bible'>Job. 15:20<\/span> : <em>The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. <\/em>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 prosperityhe 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.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Second division THE WISDOM OF PRIMITIVE AGES INCULCATED THE DIVINE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED IN THIS PRESENT LIFE, <span class='bible'>Job 15:20-35<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> First strophe <em> Notwithstanding external appearances, fear and anxiety torment the wicked their entire life<\/em>, <span class='bible'>Job 15:20-24<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> The remainder of the chapter appears to be a fragment of some ancient poem. Clericus supposes that these maxims originated among the Joktanidae, or pure original Arabs. (The queen of Sheba is believed to have been of this people.) The deepest interest gathers about this poem, which is evidently of very high antiquity.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 20<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Is hidden <\/strong> Rather, <em> That are reserved, <\/em> for the oppressor. His life is prolonged, but with the intention of punishment. Years of splendour have no power to allay his trouble it lies deep within, where God and the soul come together. Hence the word <em> conscience, <\/em> which implies a second and divine party to the knowledge and punishment of sin. In its maturest form the compunction of conscience becomes <em> remorse, <\/em> with its meaning of to <em> bite back <\/em> upon the soul. Eliphaz uses a figure common in the East when he compares the <em> gnawing <\/em> of conscience to the pains of childbirth. In the Greek language, the term wickedness, (  ,) in its root, signifies <em> labor, misery, <\/em> and the Hebrew word for sin (  ) means misfortune and punishment. (See note, <span class='bible'>Job 3:17<\/span>.) A most remarkable letter was that of Tiberius Cesar, monarch of the world, (<span class='bible'>Luk 3:1<\/span>,) to his Senate, commencing in these words: &ldquo;What to write you, Conscript Fathers, or in what manner to write, or what altogether not to write at this juncture, if I can determine, may all the gods and goddesses doom me to worse destruction than that by which I feel myself consuming daily.&rdquo; TACITUS, <em> Annals.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Job 15:20<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>, &amp;c. <\/strong><strong><em>The wicked man travaileth<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> This is a most beautiful image of the perpetual anxiety in which a tyrant lives: when he goes to sleep, he is afraid that he shall be murdered before morning. The whole description, taken together, is undoubtedly meant for Job himself; for which he had given some grounds, chap. <span class='bible'>Job 3:25-26<\/span>. See Heath. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 20. <strong> The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days<\/strong> ] He tormenteth himself, or thrusteth himself through (so some read it), <span class='bible'>1Ti 6:10<\/span> . He takes no more rest than one upon a rack; he hath his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, <span class='bible'>Jer 30:6<\/span> ; he smiteth upon his thigh; <em> sicut mulierculae in puerperio facere solent,<\/em> saith Luther in his marginal note on <span class='bible'>Jer 31:19<\/span> . And if he would do so for his sin, as he doth for his misery, <em> pia esset illa tristitia, et, si disci potest, beata miseria,<\/em> as Austin hath it (Aug. Epist. 545), his grief would be godly, and his misery a blessing, God would pity him, as he did his moan making Ephraim, and earnestly remember him still, <span class='bible'>Job 15:23<\/span> . But, alas, that wicked are strong, the hypocrite in heart, as he heaps up wrath, so he crieth not when God bindeth him, <span class='bible'>Job 36:16<\/span> . Or if he do cry, it is peril, and not <em> peccavi,<\/em> I am undone, and not, I have done amiss. Hence God many times turneth loose upon him those three vultures, care, fear, and grief, to feed upon his heart. It is seldom seen that God alloweth unto the greatest darlings of the world a perfect contentment. In the very pursuit of these outward vanities is much anguish, many grievances, fears, jealousies, disgraces, interruptions, discontentments. In the unsanctified enjoyment of them, something the wicked shall have to complain of, that shall give an unsavoury verdue to their sweetest morsels, and make their very felicity miserable; witness Ahab, Haman, &amp;c. But then followeth the sting of conscience, that maketh a Cain, a Pashur, a Richard III, to be a terror to himself. And with this pain some wicked men travail all their days here, but hereafter it shall infallibly and inexpressibly torment the souls of them all, through all eternity. And this, with the following illustrations, is that oracle or divine sentence which Eliphaz received from those famous men above mentioned, and which he not obscurely applieth and wresteth against Job, whom herehence he would prove a wicked man by his own confessions, <span class='bible'>Job 3:25-26<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Job 7:13-14<\/span> , compared with Lev 26:36 <span class='bible'>Deu 28:65<\/span> , for that which Eliphaz had heard from his ancestors was but the same law, for substance, that was afterwards written by Moses. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor<\/strong> ] Heb. To the terrible tyrant, who, as he hath not a more cruel executioner than his own conscience, so not a more sensible displeasure than to know that he is mortal, and yet to be ignorant when his tyranny must end. The number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain, saith the Vulgate translation. And from this uncertainty, which he knoweth not how to remedy (though he run to light a candle at the devil sometimes, viz. by consulting with soothsayers and sorcerers, to know of them how long he shall live, and who shall succeed him, as Tiberius and other tyrants did), followeth suspicion and fear, saith Aquinas upon this text.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>wicked man = lawless one. Hebrew. rasha&#8217;. App-44. From Job 15:20 to Job 15:35 Eliphaz repeats what he had heard from tradition. <\/p>\n<p>travaileth = &#8220;he travaileth&#8221;. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>travaileth: Rom 8:22, Ecc 9:3 <\/p>\n<p>the number: Psa 90:3, Psa 90:4, Psa 90:12, Luk 12:19-21, Jam 5:1-6 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 4:14 &#8211; driven Lev 26:16 &#8211; terror 1Sa 28:20 &#8211; sore afraid Est 5:13 &#8211; Yet all this Job 16:17 &#8211; Not for Job 21:27 &#8211; I know Job 27:13 &#8211; the heritage Psa 7:14 &#8211; General Isa 48:22 &#8211; General Isa 57:20 &#8211; like Dan 5:6 &#8211; the king&#8217;s<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Job 15:20. The wicked man travaileth with pain  That is, lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of Gods wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities. The number of his years is hidden  He knows not how short the time of his life is, and therefore lives in continual fear of losing it. To the oppressor  To the wicked man: he names this one sort of them, because he supposed Job to be guilty of this sin; and in opposition to what Job had affirmed of the safety of such persons, Job 12:6, and because such are apt to promise themselves a longer and happier life than other men.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number {m} of years is hidden to the oppressor.<\/p>\n<p>(m) The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in conscience.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 20. 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