Job 20:10
His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2But if you still refuse, and you retain them,
Exodus 22:1“If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6He shall restore the sheep fourfold, because he did this word, and he did not take pity.”
Job 20:18He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.
Proverbs 28:3A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine.
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 →