Job 20:10
His children shall flatter the poore, and his hands shall restore his substance.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shall lie downe with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2But if thou refuse to let them goe, and wilt yet holde them still,
Exodus 22:1If a man steale an oxe or a sheepe, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore fiue oxen for the oxe, and foure sheepe for the sheepe.
2 Samuel 12:6And he shall restore the lambe foure folde, because he did this thing, and had no pitie thereof.
Job 20:18He shall restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, and he shall enioy it no more.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
Proverbs 28:3A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.
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 →