Job 20:10
His children shall seek the favor of the poor.His hands shall give back his wealth.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
In Context
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more,neither shall his place any more see him.
11His bones are full of his youth,but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
Cross References
Exodus 9:2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
Exodus 22:1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
2 Samuel 12:6He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
Job 20:18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down.According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Psalms 109:10Let his children be wandering beggars.Let them be sought from their ruins.
Proverbs 28:3A needy man who oppresses the pooris like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
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 →