Job 20:10

His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his [ill-gotten] wealth.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

In Context

9If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.

11[Now] his bones are full of his youthful vigor; but it will [suddenly] lie down with him in the dust.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:2For if thou refusest to let them go, and still holdest on to them,

Exodus 22:1(21:37) If a man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it: five oxen shall he restore for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.

2 Samuel 12:6And the ewe he shall pay fourfold, for punishment that he hath done this thing, and because he had no compassion.

Job 20:18He restoreth what he hath labored for, and will not swallow it down; however much he may have obtained by toil, he will not have any joy of it.

Psalms 109:10Let his children be continually moving about, and beg, and let them seek [their bread] out of their ruined places.

Proverbs 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the indigent is like a sweeping rain which bringeth no bread.

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 →

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