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A Cruel, Personal Attack
Commentators agree that Eliphaz's words are not a general sermon but a direct and personal attack on Job. He uses imagery of a desolate family ('company of the godless') and destruction by fire to specifically echo Job's recent losses, twisting his suffering into supposed proof of his sin.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 15:34
18th Century
Theologian
For the congregation of hypocrites - The word translated “congregation” here (עדה ‘êdâh) properly means an appointed meeting—a meet…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 15:34
19th Century
Bishop
Desolate. —This was Job’s own word (Job 3:7), and as it is an uncommon word, there may be some intentional reference t…
John Gill
On Job 15:34
17th Century
Pastor
For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate
Hypocrites are such who seem to and would be thought to be, w…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 15:17–35
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…