Job 20:19
For they have oppressed and abandoned the poor; they have seized houses they did not build.
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20Because their greed was never satisfied, nothing they liked is left that they didn't consume.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:3I stand here before you. Bring any charges you have against me in the presence of the Lord and of his anointed one. Have I taken anyone's ox or donkey? Have I wronged anyone? Have I oppressed anyone? Have I accepted a bribe from anyone to turn a blind eye? Tell me, and I will repay you.”
Job 18:15People they don't know will live in their homes; sulfur will be scattered where they used to live.
Job 22:6For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped naked.
Job 31:13If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,
Job 35:9People cry out because of terrible persecution; they call for someone to save them from their oppressors.
Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”
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 →