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The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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Pain Amidst Prosperity
Commentators explain that the 'pain' Eliphaz describes is not always physical. It is often an inner torment of fear, anxiety, and a guilty conscience. Even when an oppressor seems to prosper externally, they may live with a constant dread of losing everything, what one scholar calls a 'sound of terror' in their ears.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Travaileth with pain - That is, his sorrows are like the pains of childbirth. Eliphaz means to say that he is a constant sufferer.<…
19th Century
Anglican
Travaileth with pain. —This and the following verses contain the result of this experience. Here, again, we have a highly-colored …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The wicked man travails with pain all [his] days
Either to commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and …
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Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…
13th Century
Catholic
After Eliphaz had censured Job for provoking God to an argument, which he thought amounted to a presumption of wisdom, he now censures him for a pr…
