Job 20:23

While they are busy filling their bellies, God's hostility will burn against them, raining down on them.

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In The King James Version

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

In Context

22Even when the wicked have all that they want they run into trouble; all kinds of misery will fall upon them.

24As they flee to escape an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will strike them down.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Numbers 11:33But while the people were still biting into the meat, before they even chewed it down, the Lord showed his burning anger against them, killing some of them with a severe disease.

Psalms 78:30But before they satisfied their appetite, while the meat was still in their mouths,

Malachi 2:2If you will not listen and if you will not take it to heart to honor me, says the Lord Almighty, then I will place a curse on you and I will curse your blessings—in fact I have already cursed them because you haven't taken what I said to heart.

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 →

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