Job 20:10
His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2For if you will not let them go, but still keep them in your power,
Exodus 22:1If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.
2 Samuel 12:6And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
Job 20:18He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Proverbs 28:3A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →