Teks -- Job 15:22 (NET)

15:22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

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Wesley: Job 15:22 - Believeth not

When he falls into trouble, he despairs of deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience.

Wesley: Job 15:22 - Waited for

Besides the calamity which is upon him, he is in constant expectation of greater; the sword is used for any grievous affliction.

JFB: Job 15:22 - darkness

Namely, danger or calamity. Glancing at Job, who despaired of restoration: in contrast to good men when in darkness (Mic 7:8-9).

JFB: Job 15:22 - waited for of

That is, He is destined for the sword [GESENIUS]. Rather (in the night of danger), "he looks anxiously towards the sword," as if every sword was drawn against him [UMBREIT].

Clarke: Job 15:22 - That he shall return out of darkness

That he shall return out of darkness - If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the assassin. This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think the passage should be understood to signify that he has no hope of a resurrection; he can never escape from the tomb. This I doubt: in the days of the writer of this book, the doctrine of a future judgment was understood in every part of the East where the knowledge of the true God was diffused.

TSK: Job 15:22 - He believeth not // and he is

He believeth not : Job 6:11, Job 9:16; 2Ki 6:33; Isa 8:21, Isa 8:22; Mat 27:5

and he is : Job 20:24, Job 20:25

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Poole: Job 15:22 - He is waited for of the sword

i.e. When he falls into trouble, he despairs of God’ s mercy, and of deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience; which he speaks with particular reflection upon Job, who would receive no comfort nor matter of hope.

He is waited for of the sword i.e. besides the calamity which is upon him, he is in constant expectation of further and greater miseries; for the sword is oft used for any grievous affliction, as Luk 2:35 .

Gill: Job 15:22 - He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness // and he is waited for of the sword

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,.... When he lies down at night he despairs of ever seeing the light of the morning, through fear of an enemy, a robber, a murderer, or of one disaster or another, Deu 28:66; or when he is in any affliction and calamity, which is often signified by darkness, he cannot persuade himself that he shall ever be delivered out of it, and restored to his former condition again: and here Eliphaz seems to glance at Job, who had no hope of his being brought into such a state of prosperity he had been in; whereas good men, when in darkness, believe they shall be brought again to the light, as the church in Mic 7:8; or the infidel, who knows he must be laid in the dark and silent grave; the Heathen man, such as were many of the neighbours of Eliphaz, the Idumeans, among whom he dwelt, who were without the hope of a glorious resurrection; and which is an article of pure revelation, and which the idolatrous Heathen were strangers to, and so believed it not, or any deliverance from the grave; or this may respect the blackness of darkness, the outer darkness, the darkness of hell, which when once a wicked man is cast into, and enveloped with, he despairs, as he well may, of ever being delivered out of it:

and he is waited for of the sword; or by them that kill with the sword, as the Targum, who lie in wait for him, to rob him, and kill him; or in his own apprehension he seems to have nothing but drawn swords about him, or a sword hanging over his head, or the judgments of God ready to fall upon him for his sins; for he, having killed others with the sword, must expect to be killed with it himself.