The Meaning of Job 35:15 Explained

Job 35:15

KJV: But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

YLT: And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

Darby: But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy?

ASV: But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Neither doth he greatly regard arrogance;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited  in his anger;  yet he knoweth  [it] not in great  extremity: 

What does Job 35:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 35:1-16 - Songs In The Night
God is so exalted above man in His nature that He is altogether independent of him. When men sin against Him, they hurt not Him but themselves. There is no motive, therefore, of retaliation or revenge in His chastisements. "Not for His pleasure," the Holy Ghost saith in another place, "but for our profit," Hebrews 12:10.
Instead of seeking after God our Maker, who can give songs in the darkest night that ever befell a human spirit, we are too apt to despair. Instead of crying to God, we cry against Him. We murmur and complain. We arraign God. There is our pride, Job 35:12. We regard iniquity in our heart, and God cannot answer us until we change our note for one of loving, trustful submission. God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Let us change our temper and our note. Have done with the proud self-will that chafes and argues and complains. This will not speed thy cause at God's bar. Humble thyself under His mighty hand, and He will exalt thee. "The meek He will teach His way." [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 35

1  Comparison is not to be made with God,
6  because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9  Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith

What do the individual words in Job 35:15 mean?

Now because not He has punished in His anger nor taken much notice of folly in great
וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּי־ אַ֭יִן פָּקַ֣ד אַפּ֑וֹ וְלֹֽא־ יָדַ֖ע בַּפַּ֣שׁ מְאֹֽד

וְעַתָּ֗ה  Now 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: עַתָּה  
Sense: now.
כִּי־  because 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
פָּקַ֣ד  He  has  punished 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: פָּקַד 
Sense: to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for.
אַפּ֑וֹ  in  His  anger 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.
וְלֹֽא־  nor 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יָדַ֖ע  taken  much  notice 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
בַּפַּ֣שׁ  of  folly 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: פַּשׁ  
Sense: folly, weakness, stupidity.
מְאֹֽד  in  great 
Parse: Adverb
Root: מְאֹד  
Sense: exceedingly, much subst.