King James Version
Job 15:35 in the King James Version says “They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. vanity: or, iniquity” — study this verse from Job chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. vanity: or, iniquity”
Job 15:35 · KJV
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. vanity: or, iniquity
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and bring forth”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“vanity”
H205strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
“and their belly”
H990the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
“prepareth”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
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