Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:28 in other translations
| BSB | The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath. |
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| WEB | The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath. |
| ASV | The increase of his house shall depart; His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
| YLT | Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. |
| DARBY | The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. |
| BBE | The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath. |
| Webster | The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
What does Job 20:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 20:23-29
Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Is 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite…
Job 20:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 20:28
- Job 27:14-19
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. …
- Revelation 18:17
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
- James 5:1-3
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
- Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
- Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- Deuteronomy 28:31
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
- Job 20:18-22
That 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. Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. …
- Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- 2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
- Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Context
- Job 20:27
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
- Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 20:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los renuevos de su casa serán trasportados; serán derramados en el día de su furor. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le revenu de sa maison sera emporté; il s’écoulera au jour de Sa colère. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Ertrag seines Hauses wird weggeführt werden, wird zerrinnen am Tage seines Zornes. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Apertum erit germen domus illius: detrahetur in die furoris Dei. |