Ayub 15:29

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ia takkan menjadi kaya dan hartanya tidak kekal, serta miliknyapun tidak bertambah-tambah di bumi.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia takkan menjadi kaya dan hartanya tidak kekal, serta miliknyapun tidak bertambah-tambah di bumi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tiada ia akan menjadi kaya, dan harta bendanyapun tiada akan kekal, dan miliknyapun tiada akan bertambah-tambah di atas bumi.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene: ¹⁸ Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers: ¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them. ²⁰ The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen. ²¹ A feareful sounde is [euer] in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him. ²² He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes. ²³ He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande. ²⁴ Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie. ²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hande against God, and armed him selfe against the almightie. ²⁶ He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

neither shall: Job 20:22-28, Job 22:15-20, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Psalms 49:16, Psalms 49:17, Luke 12:19-21, Luke 16:2, Luke 16:19-22, James 1:11, James 5:1-3

Reciprocal: Job 20:5 - the triumphing Proverbs 12:3 - shall not be established Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall not be rich,.... Though his heart is set upon it, he is determined at any rate to be rich; he labours for it with all his might and main, and yet shall not attain what he is so desirous of; many, who take a great deal of pains to be rich, and even in a lawful way, and are men of understanding in trade and business, and yet riches are not their portion; and some who got a great deal, yet do not grow rich; what they get, they put into a bag of holes, and it drops through as fast as they put in; what they get in one sinful way they consume in another, and so are always poor; and others, though they have amassed together a vast substance, yet still are but poor men, not using what they have either for their own good, or the good of others; and not being content with what they have, but always craving more, and so are even poor in their own account, not having what they would have: however, such a man is not rich towards God; for in godly and spiritual things he is destitute of the true riches of grace, and has no title to the riches of glory; and as for his earthly riches, these shall not endure; though he may be rich for the present, he will not be always so; And this sense the next clause confirms:

neither shall his substance continue; or "his strength" b his power and might, a rich man's wealth being his strong city, in which he places his trust and confidence; riches are called "substance", though their are but a shadow, yea, mere nonentities, things that are not, in comparison of heavenly things; see Proverbs 23:5; at least they are not an enduring substance; they are uncertain things, here today, and gone tomorrow; that make themselves wings, and fly away from the owners of them; or they are taken away front them, and are not like the riches of grace, which are durable riches; or like those of glory; but by one means or another are taken out of the hands of the possessors of them, and they are reduced to poverty: and this "their substance shall not rise"; or rather, "not rise again" c, as the word may be rendered; notwithstanding all the pains they may take, their substance shall not rise, grow, and increase; or not rise up to the former heights it did, but being fallen into poverty there they lie:

neither shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth; though, indeed, there is no perfection in the creature, nor in creature enjoyments, nor in outward riches and substance; such as have had the largest share of them, as David and Solomon, have declared they have seen an end of all perfection, and that all things, the highest enjoyments, are vanity and vexation of spirit; yet when men are got to the summit, and height, and perfection of outward happiness, as they or others may think, this is not prolonged, or continued long in the earth, or they continued in it; but often are suddenly cast down from the pinnacle of honour, wealth, and riches; hence some render the words, "and their prosperity shall not be fixed into the earth" d; shall not take root, though it may seem to do, Jeremiah 12:2; and so shall not spread itself as a tree well rooted does; and as does the spiritual prosperity, perfection, and fullness of good men, which they have in and by Christ; being rooted in the love of God, in the grace of Christ, and having the root of the matter in them, they cast forth their roots as Lebanon, and their branches spread, and they are full of the fruits and blessings of grace, Hosea 14:5.

b חילו "ejus robur", Mercerus; "potentia ejus", Drusius. c לא יקום "neque resurgent opes ejus", Schmidt. d ולא יטה לארץ מנלם "nec mittet in terra radicem suam", V. L. "et non pangetur in terram prosperitas eorum", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall not be rich - That is, he shall not continue rich; or he shall not again become rich. He shall be permanently poor.

Neither shall his substance continue - His property.

Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof - Noyes renders this, “And his possessions shall not be extended upon the earth.” Wemyss, “Nor shall he be master of his own desires.” Good, “Nor their success spread abroad in the land.” Luther, Und sein Gluck wird sich nicht ausbreiten im Lande - “ And his fortune shall not spread itself abroad in the land.” Vulgate, “Neither shall he send his root in the earth “ - nec mittet in terra radicem suam. The Septuagint, οὐ μὴ βάλῃ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν σκιὰν ou mē balē epi tēn gōn skian - “and shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.” The word rendered “perfection” (מנלם mı̂nlām) is commonly supposed to be from מנלה mı̂nleh, from נלה nâlâh to finish, to procure, and hence, the noun may be applied to that which is procured - and thus may denote possessions. According to this the correct rendering is, “and he does not extend their possessions abroad in the land;” that is, his possessions do not extend abroad. Gesenius supposes, however, that the word is a corruption for מבלם - “their flocks.” I see no objection, however, to its being regarded as meaning possessions - and then the sense is, that he would fail in that which is so much the object of ambition with every avaricious man - that his possessions should extend through the land; compare the notes at Isaiah 5:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:29. He shall not be rich — The whole of what follows, to the end of the chapter, seems to be directed against Job himself, whom Eliphaz indirectly accuses of having been a tyrant and oppressor. The threatened evils are,

1. He shall not be rich, though he labours greatly to acquire riches.

2. His substance shall not continue - God will blast it, and deprive him of power to preserve it.

3. Neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof - all his works shall perish, for God will blot out his remembrance from under heaven.