Job 15:22

King James Version

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness;he is destined for the sword.

Hebrew Names Version
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

English Standard Version
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

New Century Version
Evil people give up trying to escape from the darkness; it has been decided that they will die by the sword.

New English Translation
He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

Amplified Bible
"He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered], And he is destined for the sword [of God's vengeance].

New American Standard Bible
"He does not believe that he will return from darkness, And he is destined for the sword.

World English Bible
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.

Legacy Standard Bible
He does not believe that he will return from darkness,And he is destined for the sword.

Berean Standard Bible
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

Contemporary English Version
Darkness, despair, and death are their destiny.

Complete Jewish Bible
He despairs of returning from darkness — he is destined to meet the sword.

Darby Translation
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.

Easy-to-Read Version
An evil man has no hope of escaping the darkness. There is a sword somewhere waiting to kill him.

George Lamsa Translation
He does not believe that he shall be overthrown because of the darkness, and that he shall see the sword.

Good News Translation
They have no hope of escaping from darkness, for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them,

Lexham English Bible
He cannot trust that he will return from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword.

Literal Translation
He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes.

American Standard Version
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

Bible in Basic English
He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

King James Version (1611)
He beleeueth not that he shall returne out of darkenesse, and he is waited for, of the sword.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

English Revised Version
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He bileueth not that he may turne ayen fro derknessis to liyt; and biholdith aboute on ech side a swerd.

Update Bible Version
He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, And he is destined for the sword.

Webster's Bible Translation
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.

New King James Version
He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him.

New Living Translation
They dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered.

New Life Bible
He does not believe that he will be taken away from darkness, and the sword is meant for him.

New Revised Standard
They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

Revised Standard Version
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.

Young's Literal Translation
He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He does not believe that he will return from darkness, And he is destined for the sword.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; ¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: ¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. ²⁰ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He believeth not: Job 6:11, Job 9:16, 2 Kings 6:33, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22, Matthew 27:5

and he is: Job 20:24, Job 20:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:13 - General Genesis 50:15 - Joseph Leviticus 26:36 - I will send Judges 7:21 - all the host 1 Samuel 25:37 - his heart 1 Kings 1:41 - Wherefore 1 Kings 1:52 - wickedness Esther 7:6 - was afraid Job 15:30 - depart Job 23:17 - the darkness from Psalms 107:14 - brought Isaiah 33:14 - sinners

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,.... When he lies down at night he despairs of ever seeing the light of the morning, through fear of an enemy, a robber, a murderer, or of one disaster or another, Deuteronomy 28:66; or when he is in any affliction and calamity, which is often signified by darkness, he cannot persuade himself that he shall ever be delivered out of it, and restored to his former condition again: and here Eliphaz seems to glance at Job, who had no hope of his being brought into such a state of prosperity he had been in; whereas good men, when in darkness, believe they shall be brought again to the light, as the church in Micah 7:8; or the infidel, who knows he must be laid in the dark and silent grave; the Heathen man, such as were many of the neighbours of Eliphaz, the Idumeans, among whom he dwelt, who were without the hope of a glorious resurrection; and which is an article of pure revelation, and which the idolatrous Heathen were strangers to, and so believed it not, or any deliverance from the grave; or this may respect the blackness of darkness, the outer darkness, the darkness of hell, which when once a wicked man is cast into, and enveloped with, he despairs, as he well may, of ever being delivered out of it:

and he is waited for of the sword; or by them that kill with the sword, as the Targum, who lie in wait for him, to rob him, and kill him; or in his own apprehension he seems to have nothing but drawn swords about him, or a sword hanging over his head, or the judgments of God ready to fall upon him for his sins; for he, having killed others with the sword, must expect to be killed with it himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness - Darkness is used in the Bible, as elsewhere, to denote calamity; and the meaning here is, that the wicked man has not confidence (יאמין לא lo' ya'amı̂yn), that he shall return safely from impending danger. He is in constant dread of assassination, or of some fearful evil. He is never secure; his mind is never calm; he lives in constant dread. This is still an accurate description of a man with a guilty conscience; for such a man lives in constant fear, and never feels any security that he is safe.

And he is waited for of the sword - That is, he is destined for the sword. Gesenius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:22. That he shall return out of darkness — If he take but a few steps in the dark, he expects the dagger of the assassin. This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think the passage should be understood to signify that he has no hope of a resurrection; he can never escape from the tomb. This I doubt: in the days of the writer of this book, the doctrine of a future judgment was understood in every part of the East where the knowledge of the true God was diffused.