Job 27:15 Meaning and Explanation
“Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Those of the wicked man's house who survive will die by plague, and not even their widows will mourn them.
What Does Job 27:15 Mean?
The grim portrait deepens. Those who remain are buried by death, an expression often pointing to plague or pestilence, and even their widows do not weep. So thorough is the desolation, or so hardened the grief, that the customary mourning falls silent. The household ends not only in death but in a death no one laments.
Behind the bleak imagery stands a warning about the loneliness of a life and legacy without God. A heritage of oppression leaves behind no love strong enough even to mourn it well. The verse is not a delight in others' ruin but a solemn reckoning with what sin finally produces: emptiness where there should be tears. It presses the reader toward a life that leaves behind not desolation but blessing, and toward the God who collects every righteous tear and will one day wipe them all away.
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What does Job 27:15 mean?
Those of the wicked man's house who survive will die by plague, and not even their widows will mourn them.