Job 20:10
His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
11His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus 22:1(21-37) If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.'
Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Proverbs 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the weak is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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 →