Teks -- Job 15:34 (NET)

15:34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

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JFB: Job 15:34

Rather, The binding together of the hypocrites (wicked) shall be fruitless [UMBREIT].

JFB: Job 15:34 - tabernacles of bribery

Namely, dwellings of unjust judges, often reprobated in the Old Testament (Isa 1:23). The "fire of God" that consumed Job's possessions (Job 1:16) Eliphaz insinuates may have been on account of Job's bribery as an Arab sheik or emir.

Clarke: Job 15:34 - The congregation of hypocrites

The congregation of hypocrites -

11.    Job is here classed with hypocrites, or rather the impious of all kinds. The congregation, or עדת adath , society, of such, shall be desolate, or a barren rock, גלמוד galmud . See this Arabic word explained in the note on Job 3:7 (note)

Clarke: Job 15:34 - Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery

Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery -

12.    Another insinuation against Job, that he had perverted justice and judgment, and had taken bribes.

TSK: Job 15:34 - the congregation // the tabernacles

the congregation : Job 8:13, Job 20:1, Job 27:8, Job 36:13; Isa 33:14, Isa 33:15; Mat 24:51

the tabernacles : Job 11:14, Job 12:6, Job 22:5-9, Job 29:12-17; 1Sa 8:3, 1Sa 12:3; Mic 7:2; Amo 5:11, Amo 5:12

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Poole: Job 15:34 - The congregation // Desolate // The tabernacles of bribery

The congregation i.e. their children, and servants, and friends, and dependents.

Desolate i.e. utterly destroyed. Fire , i.e. some eminent and terrible judgment of God, which is oft expressed by fire; as Isa 9:19 26:11 .

The tabernacles of bribery i.e. which were either built or maintained by extortion and bribery, and suchlike unrighteous courses, whereof they thought Job guilty, Job 22:8 .

Haydock: Job 15:34 - Congregation // Bribes

Congregation, or family. ---

Bribes. Literally, "presents," which (Haydock) frequently were not given freely, but extorted as a real tribute. (Calmet) ---

Septuagint, "for the death of the wicked is a martyrdom," or proof of his impiety. "But fire shall consume the houses of the present (or bribe) receivers."

Gill: Job 15:34 - For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate // and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,.... Hypocrites are such who seem to and would be thought to be, what they are not; they are outwardly righteous before men, but inwardly very wicked; have a form of godliness, but are destitute the power of it, 2Ti 3:5; pretend to much religion, and to be worshippers of God, when it is only in outward appearances, and not in reality and sincerity: and such as these have been in the congregations of the righteous, in all ages; but here Eliphaz speaks of a congregation of them, a society, a family of them; and very probably has his eye upon Job's, and would represent hereby that he, the head of his family, and his children, when living, and his servants and associates, were all hypocrites, and now become desolate, reduced to want and poverty, and in distressed circumstances: or were "solitary" ⁱ and alone, as the word is rendered in Job 3:7; destitute of friends, and of the comforts of life; and perhaps reference may be had to the future state of such, when they shall aloud be bid to depart from God, have no society with angels and saints, but shall have their portion with those of the same character with them, hypocrites, in the highest degree of torment and misery, Mat 24:51;

and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery; either such tents, or houses, as were built with money taken as bribes; see Hab 2:12; or where such who received bribes dwelt; unjust judges, who took a gift that blinds the eyes, to pervert justice. Job is afterwards by Eliphaz represented as if he was an oppressor, a wicked magistrate, and guilty of such like crimes as here pointed at, Job 22:6; and the "fire" said to consume the dwelling places of such may be understood either of material fire, such as came down from heaven, and destroyed Job's sheep, Job 1:16; or figuratively, the wrath of God often compared to fire, which would appear in one way or another, to the utter ruin of such persons, their habitations, and those that dwelt in them.