They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”
Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I.
Commenting on Job 15:17-35
Bitter irony, illustrating the "unfruitfulness" (Job 15:34) of the wicked. Their conceptions and birthgivings consist solely in mischief, &c. (Isa 33:11). prepareth--hatcheth. Next: Job Chapter 16
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (y) Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction.