Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and his decreed heritage from God.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
In Context
28The product of his house will be banished, flowing away on the day of his wrath.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20(29:19) The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.
Job 22:20“Is not he destroyed that rose up against us, and hath not the fire consumed what they had left?”
Job 31:2And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high?
Jeremiah 13:25This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:24-29
23 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. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;… Read the whole commentary →