Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
The verse stands inside the extended debate between Job and his three friends over the meaning of his afflictions. There it forms part of Job's own description of the end awaiting the wicked. That end is one of final public disgrace, when onlookers clap their hands at the wicked man and drive him from his place with hissing. In this way the verse gives assurance of the wicked's ultimate punishment, rather than teaching that present suffering proves a person is under God's displeasure, a principle Job's friends wrongly applied to Job himself.
The verse stands inside the extended debate between Job and his three friends over the meaning of his afflictions. There it forms part of Job's own description of the end awaiting the wicked. That end is one of final public disgrace, when onlookers clap their hands at the wicked man and drive him from his place with hissing. In this way the verse gives assurance of the wicked's ultimate punishment, rather than teaching that present suffering proves a person is under God's displeasure, a principle Job's friends wrongly applied to Job himself.