Teks -- Job 15:35 (NET)

15:35 They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”

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JFB: Job 15:35

Bitter irony, illustrating the "unfruitfulness" (Job 15:34) of the wicked. Their conceptions and birthgivings consist solely in mischief, &c. (Isa 33:11).

JFB: Job 15:35 - prepareth

Hatcheth.

Clarke: Job 15:35 - They conceive mischief

They conceive mischief - The figure here is both elegant and impressive. The wicked conceive mischief, from the seed which Satan sows in their hearts; in producing which they travail with many pangs, (for sin is a sore labor), and at last their womb produces fraud or deception. This is an accursed birth, from an iniquitous conception. St. James gives the figure at full length, most beautifully touched in all its parts: When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death; Jam 1:15 (note), where see the note. Poor Job! what a fight of affliction had he to contend with! His body wasted and tortured with sore disease; his mind harassed by Satan; and his heart wrung with the unkindness, and false accusations of his friends. No wonder he was greatly agitated, often distracted, and sometimes even thrown off his guard. However, all his enemies were chained; and beyond that chain they could not go. God was his unseen Protector, and did not suffer his faithful servant to be greatly moved.

TSK: Job 15:35 - conceive // vanity

conceive : Psa 7:14; Isa 59:4, Isa 59:5; Hos 10:13; Gal 6:7, Gal 6:8; Jam 1:15

vanity : or, iniquity

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Poole: Job 15:35 - They conceive mischief // Vanity // Prepareth deceit

They conceive mischief i.e. they devise and contrive injurious and pernicious enterprises against others.

Vanity or iniquity, or injury, or trouble ; either,

1. To others; they execute what they had contrived. Or,

2. To themselves; the mischief they designed for others falleth upon their own heads, and they reap what they sowed. And their belly , i.e. their inward parts, their hearts and minds. See Poole "Job 15:2" .

Prepareth deceit either,

1. For others, whom they design to cheat; or,

2. For themselves, who whilst they seek to deceive others, shall find that they themselves are most deceived, as being deprived of all their desires and hopes wherewith they fed themselves, and cast into all those calamities which they thought to prevent by these artifices.

Haydock: Job 15:35 - Sorrow // His

Sorrow. Hebrew, "mischief." (Haydock) See Psalm vii. 15., and Isaias xlix. 4. ---

The tree is known by its fruit. Eliphaz sufficiently insinuates, that he is speaking of Job. (Calmet) ---

His, or "its," the congregation's womb, ver. 34. Protestants, "their belly." (Haydock)

Gill: Job 15:35 - They conceive mischief // forth vanity // and their belly prepareth deceit

They conceive mischief,.... That is, such wicked persons as before described; they meditate sin in their minds, and contrive how to commit it, and form schemes within themselves to do mischief to others:

forth vanity; or sin; for lust when it is conceived bringeth forth sin, and that is vanity, an empty thing, and neither yields profit nor pleasure in the issue, but that which is useless and unserviceable, yea, harmful and ruinous; for sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, even death eternal, Jam 1:14;

and their belly prepareth deceit; their inward part frames and devises that which is designed to deceive others, and in the end proves deceitful to themselves: the allusion is to a pregnant woman, or rather to one who seems to be so, and whose conception proves abortive, and so deceives and disappoints herself and others; see Psa 7:14.