Job 20:11
His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.
12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
Cross References
Job 13:26For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.
Job 19:20The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
Psalms 25:7The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
Ezekiel 24:13Thy uncleanness is execrable: be- cause I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.
John 8:21Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go, and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.
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 →