Job 27:13
This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
Cross References
Job 15:20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
Job 20:29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
Job 31:3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Ecclesiastes 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →