Job 15:35

New King James Version

They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;their womb prepares deception.

Hebrew Names Version
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

King James Version
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

English Standard Version
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."

New Century Version
who plan trouble and give birth to evil, whose hearts plan ways to trick others."

New English Translation
They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."

Amplified Bible
"They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness, And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud."

New American Standard Bible
"They conceive harm and give birth to wrongdoing, And their mind prepares deception."

World English Bible
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.

Legacy Standard Bible
They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness,And their belly prepares deception."

Berean Standard Bible
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit."

Contemporary English Version
because they are the parents of trouble and vicious lies.

Complete Jewish Bible
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deceit."

Darby Translation
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Easy-to-Read Version
They are always thinking of ways to do evil and cause trouble. They are always planning how they might cheat others."

George Lamsa Translation
They conceive mischief and bring forth deceit, and their belly is full of guile.

Good News Translation
These are the ones who plan trouble and do evil; their hearts are always full of deceit.

Lexham English Bible
They conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."

Literal Translation
they conceive mischief and generate evil; and their belly prepares deceit.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.

American Standard Version
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

Bible in Basic English
Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

King James Version (1611)
They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He conceaueth trauaile, and beareth vanitie, and their body bringeth foorth disceyte.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

English Revised Version
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He conseyuede sorewe, and childide wickidnesse, and his wombe makith redi tretcheries.

Update Bible Version
They are pregnant with mischief, and give birth to iniquity, And their heart prepares deceit.

Webster's Bible Translation
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

New Living Translation
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit."

New Life Bible
They give birth to trouble and bring sin. Their minds plan lies."

New Revised Standard
They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.

Revised Standard Version
They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

Young's Literal Translation
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, And their mind prepares deception."

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ "I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare, ¹⁸ What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers, ¹⁹ To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them: ²⁰ The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor. ²¹ Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him. ²² He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him. ²³ He wanders about for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle. ²⁵ For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty, ²⁶ Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

conceive: Psalms 7:14, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:5, Hosea 10:13, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, James 1:15

vanity: or, iniquity

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:7 - seeketh mischief Psalms 10:7 - mischief Proverbs 24:2 - General Isaiah 33:11 - conceive Acts 5:4 - why

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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:

and bring 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, James 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 Psalms 7:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They conceive mischief - The meaning of this verse is, that they form and execute plans of evil. It is the characteristic of such men that they form such plans and live to execute them, and they must abide the consequences. All this was evidently meant for Job; and few things could be more trying to a man’s patience than to sit and hear those ancient apothegms, designed to describe the wicked, applied so unfeelingly to himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:35. 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 labour,) 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; James 1:15, 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.