Job 15:34
Good News Translation
There will be no descendants for godless people, and fire will destroy the homes built by bribery.

New Revised Standard Version
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

Contemporary English Version
Yes, the godless and the greedy will have nothing but flames feasting on their homes,

New American Bible
For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

the congregation

Job 8:13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 20:1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Job 36:13 Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

Isaiah 33:14,15 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings? . . .

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

the tabernacles

Job 11:14 If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Job 22:5-9 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities? . . .

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 12:3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Amos 5:11,12 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
33He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower. 34For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.35He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.…
Cross References
Job 8:13
Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

Job 8:22
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

Job 15:33
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