He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Study Helps
Interpretation
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.