Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
In Context
28The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Job 22:20[Saying], Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.
Job 31:2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Jeremiah 13:25This is thy lot, the portion measured to thee from me, says LORD, because thou have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Matthew 24:51and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:24-29
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;… Read the whole commentary →