Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 15:30

30. He shall not depart out of darkness , the flame shall dry up his branches , and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away .

His misery shall have no end.

God's anger and judgment upon him

Either 1. his Children. Or 2. Wealth, and Power, and Glory, wherewith he was encompassed aud adorned and secured, as Trees are with their Branches.

i. e. Of God's mouth, as appears both by comparing this with v. 25. where God is expressed as the Adversary with whom this wicked Wretch contendeth: and by the nature of the thing, and the whole Context, all this man's Calamities being manifestly the effects of God's anger; and by other places of Scripture, where the breath of God's mouth or lips are mentioned, as that whereby he destroyeth wicked men. as Iob 4. 9. Isa. 11. 4. 2 Thes. 2. 8. And this expression intimates to us, with how much facility God subdueth his Enemies, he needs no Arms or Instruments; his Word, his Blast, one Act of his Will is more than sufficient to do it.

Heb. go back; i. e. retreat and run away from God faster than he did run towards and upon him, v. 26. So it is a continuation of the former Metaphor of a Battel or Conflict between two persons.

Marginal references: That is, God's mouth.