| Geneva Study Bible He wandereth {o} abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. (o) God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary. Wesley's Notes 15:23 Knoweth - From his own guilty conscience. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 23. Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in Old Testament depicts sore need (Isa 5:13). Contrast the pious man's lot (Job 5:20-22). knoweth-has the firm conviction. Contrast the same word applied to the pious (Job 5:24, 25). ready at his hand-an Arabic phrase to denote a thing's complete readiness and full presence, as if in the hand. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 15:17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ? | 
