Job 15:30

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

No escapar das trevas; a chama do fogo secar os seus renovos, e ao assopro da boca de Deus ser arrebatado.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
No escapar das trevas; a chama do fogo secar os seus renovos, e ao sopro da sua boca desaparecer.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
No escapar das trevas; a chama do fogo secar os seus renovos e, ao assopro da boca de Deus, desaparecer.

Bible Verse Review
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depart: Job 15:22, Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:18, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, 2 Peter 2:17, Jude 1:13

the flame: Job 20:26, Isaiah 30:33, Ezekiel 15:4-7, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 20:48, Matthew 25:41, Mark 9:43-49, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

by the breath: Job 4:9, Isaiah 11:4, Revelation 19:15

Reciprocal: Job 18:16 - shall his branch Job 31:8 - let my Psalms 107:14 - brought Isaiah 40:24 - they shall not be planted Jeremiah 17:6 - like John 15:6 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall not depart out of darkness,.... Out of the darkness of poverty, calamity, and distress he comes into, and, indeed, he despairs of it himself, as in Job 15:22; and in a spiritual sense he departs not out of the darkness of sin, out of the dark state of unregeneracy; nor will he depart out of the blackness and darkness reserved for him hereafter, when he is once come into it:

the flame shall dry up his branches; alluding either to a violent drought and heat, which dries up pastures, herbs, and trees, and the branches of them; or to a wind, as the Septuagint, a burning wind, in the eastern countries, which consumed all green things; or to a flash of lightning, which shatters, strips, and destroys branches of trees: here it may signify the wrath of God, like a flame of fire consuming the wealth and substance, and families, of wicked men; whose children particularly may be compared to branches, and so respect may be had to Job's children, who were suddenly destroyed by a violent wind, which threw down the house in which they were:

and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away; out of the world, a phrase expressive of death; either because of the breath of his own mouth, as some in Jarchi, because of his blasphemies against God and his people, because of his cursing and swearing his mouth is full of, and the many vain, foolish, and idle words which come out of it, and for which he will be condemned; or rather

"by the breath of the mouth of God,''

as the Targum; either according to his purpose and decree, and by his order, and the word that goes out of his mouth; the wicked man shall be obliged to depart out of the world at once, being struck dead by him, as Ananias and Sapphira were; or by his powerful wrath and vengeance, whose breath is as a stream of brimstone, and with which he will slay the wicked of the earth, and particularly will consume the wicked one, antichrist, even with the spirit of his mouth, and with the brightness of his coming, Isaiah 11:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall not depart out of darkness - He shall not escape from calamity; see Job 15:22. He shall not be able to rise again, but shall be continually poor.

The flame shall dry up his branches - As the fire consumes the green branches of a tree, so shall punishment do to him. This comparison is very forcible, and the idea is, that the man who has been prospered as a tree shall be consumed - as the fire consumes a tree when it passes through the branches. The comparison of a prosperous man with a tree is very common, and very beautiful. Thus, the Psalmist says,

I have seen the wicked in great power,

And spreading himself like a green bay tree. Psalms 37:35.

Compare Psalms 92:12-13. The aged Skenandoah - a chief of the Oneida tribe of Indians, said,” I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. My branches are falling,” etc.

And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away - That is, by the breath of the mouth of God. God is not indeed specified, but it is not unusual to speak of him in this manner. The image here seems to be that of the destruction of a man by a burning wind or by lightning. As a tree is dried up, or is rent by lightning, or is torn up from the roots by a tempest sent by the Deity, so the wicked will be destroyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:30. He shall not depart out of darkness —

4. He shall be in continual afflictions and distress.

5. The flame shall dry up his branches - his children shall be cut off by sudden judgments.

6. He shall pass away by the breath of his mouth; for by the breath of his mouth doth God slay the wicked.