Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
King James Version
In Context
9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
Exodus 22:1If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Proverbs 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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 →