Job 20:19
For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
20Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:3Beholde, here I am: beare recorde of me before the Lord and before his Anointed. Whose oxe haue I taken? or whose asse haue I taken? or whome haue I done wrong to? or whome haue I hurt? or of whose hande haue I receiued any bribe, to blinde mine eyes therewith, and I will restore it you?
Job 18:15Feare shall dwell in his house (because it is not his) and brimstone shalbe scattered vpon his habitation.
Job 22:6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
Job 31:13If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me,
Job 35:9They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.
Psalms 12:5Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.
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 →