Job 20:10
His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:
Exodus 22:1If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity.
Job 20:18He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
Proverbs 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth 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 →