Job 20:11

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

In Context

10His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his [ill-gotten] wealth.

12If the evil be sweet in his mouth, he will conceal it under his tongue;

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Cross References

Job 13:26That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth;

Job 19:20To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.

Psalms 25:7The sins of my youth and my transgressions do not remember: according to thy kindness bear thou me in remembrance, for the sake of thy goodness, O Lord.

Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.

Ezekiel 24:13In thy uncleanness is [thy] incest; because I endeavored to cleanse thee, and thou wouldst not be clean, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy uncleanness any more, until I have assuaged my fury on thee.

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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