Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
20“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
Job 18:15There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
Job 22:6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Job 35:9“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Psalms 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
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 →