Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 27:13 in other translations
| BSB | This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty. |
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| WEB | “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. |
| ASV | This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: |
| YLT | This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. |
| DARBY | This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: — |
| BBE | This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. |
| Webster | This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. |
What does Job 27:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23
11-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to…
Job 27:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:13
- Job 20:19-29
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. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. …
- 2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- Job 15:20-35
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. …
- Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
- Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- James 5:4-6
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
- Psalms 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
- Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
- Proverbs 22:22-23
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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Context
- Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
- Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Esta es para con Dios la suerte del hombre impío, y la herencia que los violentos han de recibir del Omnipotente. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici quelle est, par-devers ✶Dieu, la part de l’homme méchant et l’héritage que les violents reçoivent du Tout-puissant: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dies ist das Teil des gesetzlosen Menschen bei Gott, und das Erbe der Gewalttätigen, welches sie von dem Allmächtigen empfangen: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hæc est pars hominis impii apud Deum, et hæreditas violentorum, quam ob Omnipotente suscipient. |