Job 20:10
Their children will have to pay back the poor; they will have to return their wealth.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9Those who once saw them will not see them anymore; their families will never set eyes on them again.
11Though the wicked have bodies that are young and strong, they will die and be buried.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2If you refuse to let them go and keep holding on to them,
Exodus 22:1“Anyone who steals an ox or a sheep and kills or sells it must pay back five oxen for one ox and four sheep for one sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6He must repay that lamb with four of his own for doing this, for being so heartless.”
Job 20:18They will have to give back what they have gained and will not have any benefit; they will not enjoy any of their profits.
Psalms 109:10May his children be homeless, wandering beggars, driven from their ruined houses.
Proverbs 28:3When someone poor oppresses the poor, it's like heavy rain that beats down the crops.
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 →