Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
12Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Cross References
Job 15:20The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
Job 20:29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall haue of God for his wordes.
Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie?
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.
Ecclesiastes 8:13But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.
Malachi 3:5And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
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 →