Teks -- Job 15:30 (NET)

15:30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

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Wesley: Job 15:30 - Depart

His misery shall have no end.

Wesley: Job 15:30 - Flame

God's anger and judgment upon him.

Wesley: Job 15:30 - Branches

His wealth, and power, and glory, wherewith he was encompassed, as trees are with their branches.

Wesley: Job 15:30 - His mouth

And this expression intimates, with how much ease God subdueth his enemies: his word, his blast; one act of his will is sufficient.

Wesley: Job 15:30 - Go

Heb. go back: that is, run away from God faster than he ran upon him, Job 15:26. So it is a continuation of the former metaphor of a conflict between two persons.

JFB: Job 15:30 - depart

That is, escape (Job 15:22-23).

JFB: Job 15:30 - branches

Namely, his offspring (Job 1:18-19; Psa 37:35).

JFB: Job 15:30 - dry up

The "flame" is the sultry wind in the East by which plants most full of sap are suddenly shrivelled.

JFB: Job 15:30 - his mouth

That is, God's wrath (Isa 11:4).

Clarke: Job 15:30 - He shall not depart out of darkness

He shall not depart out of darkness -

4.    He shall be in continual afflictions and distress

5.    The flame shall dry up his branches - his children shall be cut off by sudden judgments

6.    He shall pass away by the breath of his mouth; for by the breath of his mouth doth God slay the wicked.

TSK: Job 15:30 - depart // the flame // by the breath

depart : Job 15:22, Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:18; Mat 8:12, Mat 22:13; 2Pe 2:17; Jud 1:13

the flame : Job 20:26; Isa 30:33; Eze 15:4-7, Eze 20:47, Eze 20:48; Mat 25:41; Mar 9:43-49; 2Th 1:8, 2Th 1:9

by the breath : Job 4:9; Isa 11:4; Rev 19:15

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Poole: Job 15:30 - He shall not depart out of darkness // The flame // His branches // Of his mouth // Shall he go away

He shall not depart out of darkness his misery shall have no end.

The flame God’ s anger and judgment upon him.

His branches either,

1. His children; or,

2. Wealth, and power, and glory, wherewith he was encompassed, and adorned, and secured, as trees are with their branches.

Of his mouth i.e. of God’ s mouth, as appears both by comparing this with Job 15:25 , where God is expressed as the adversary with whom this wicked wretch contendeth; and by the nature of the thing, and the whole context, all this man’ s calamities being manifestly the effects of God’ s anger; and by other places of Scripture, where the breath of God’ s mouth or lips are mentioned as that whereby he destroyeth wicked men; as Job 4:9 Isa 11:4 2Th 2:8 . And this expression intimates to us with how much facility God subdueth his enemies; he needs no arms or instruments; his word, his blast, one act of his will, is more than sufficient to do it.

Shall he go away Heb. go back , i.e. retreat and run away from God faster than he did run towards and upon him, Job 15:26 . So it is a continuation of the former metaphor of a battle or conflict between two persons.

Gill: Job 15:30 - 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

He shall not depart out of darkness,.... Out of the darkness of poverty, calamity, and distress he comes into, and, indeed, he despairs of it himself, as in Job 15:22; and in a spiritual sense he departs not out of the darkness of sin, out of the dark state of unregeneracy; nor will he depart out of the blackness and darkness reserved for him hereafter, when he is once come into it:

the flame shall dry up his branches; alluding either to a violent drought and heat, which dries up pastures, herbs, and trees, and the branches of them; or to a wind, as the Septuagint, a burning wind, in the eastern countries, which consumed all green things; or to a flash of lightning, which shatters, strips, and destroys branches of trees: here it may signify the wrath of God, like a flame of fire consuming the wealth and substance, and families, of wicked men; whose children particularly may be compared to branches, and so respect may be had to Job's children, who were suddenly destroyed by a violent wind, which threw down the house in which they were:

and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away; out of the world, a phrase expressive of death; either because of the breath of his own mouth, as some in Jarchi, because of his blasphemies against God and his people, because of his cursing and swearing his mouth is full of, and the many vain, foolish, and idle words which come out of it, and for which he will be condemned; or rather

"by the breath of the mouth of God,''

as the Targum; either according to his purpose and decree, and by his order, and the word that goes out of his mouth; the wicked man shall be obliged to depart out of the world at once, being struck dead by him, as Ananias and Sapphira were; or by his powerful wrath and vengeance, whose breath is as a stream of brimstone, and with which he will slay the wicked of the earth, and particularly will consume the wicked one, antichrist, even with the spirit of his mouth, and with the brightness of his coming, Isa 11:4.