Job 20:11
His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
In Context
10His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
12For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
Cross References
Job 13:26For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
Job 19:20Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.
Psalms 25:7so that I may hear the voice of your praise and describe all your wonders.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Ezekiel 24:13Your uncleanness is execrable. For I wanted to cleanse you, and you have not been cleansed from your filth. So then, neither will you be cleansed before I cause my indignation over you to cease.
John 8:21Therefore, Jesus again spoke to them: “I am going, and you shall seek me. And you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to go.”
Matthew Henry on Job 20:11-23
Misery of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again:… Read the whole commentary →