Job 20:19

For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.

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In The King James Version

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

In Context

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.

20And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:3Speak about me before the Lord, and before his Christ, as to whether I have taken anyone’s ox or donkey, or whether I have falsely accused anyone, or whether I have oppressed anyone, or whether I have accepted a bribe from the hand of anyone, and I will repudiate the same, this day, and I will restore it to you.”

Job 18:15Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.

Job 22:6For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 31:13If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,

Job 35:9Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.

Psalms 12:5lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.

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 →

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