Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Cross References
Job 15:20The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
Job 20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
Psalms 12:5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?
Ecclesiastes 8:13But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.
Malachi 3:5And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →