Bible Strands
Job 15:22
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job during a discourse on the fate of the wicked, describing a man consumed by terror and impending violence.
The words — The Hebrew יַאֲמִין (ya'amin) means "he believes" or "he trusts," paired with שׁוּב (shuv), "to return," forming the literal claim that he does not trust to return from darkness.
The thread — This pattern of inescapable doom appears in Job 20:24, where the wicked flees an iron weapon only to be pierced, and Job 6:11, which questions the basis for any remaining hope or patience.
Why it lands — The text states that despair over deliverance and a fixed mark of violence are the direct conditions of the subject, requiring the reader to acknowledge that self-generated hope is impossible against a settled fate.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Cross-references
- Job 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
- 2 Kings 6:33 While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
- Job 6:11 What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 9:16 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
- Job 19:29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
- Job 27:14 Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
- Isaiah 8:21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Matthew 27:5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.