Job 20:28

Job 20:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
• New International Version (NIV)A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The increase of his house will depart, And his goods will flow away in the day of His wrath.

Context of Job 20:28

26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent. 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

Job 20:28 word by word

יִ֭גֶל יְב֣וּל בֵּית֑וֹ נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת בְּי֣וֹם אַפּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639

Cross-references for Job 20:28

• Job 20:10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
• Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
• Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
• 2 Kings 20:17Behold, days come that all that is in thy house, and what thy fathers have laid up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.
• Revelation 18:17for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate. And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood afar off,
• Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Zephaniah 1:18their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden [end], shall he make of all them that dwell in the land.
• Matthew 16:26For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
• James 5:1Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that [are] coming upon [you].

Commentaries on Job 20:28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath - A farther allusion to the punishment of the rebellious company of Korah, who not only perished themselves, but their houses also, and their goods. Numbers 16:32. These examples were all in point, on the ground assumed by Zophar; and such well-attested facts would not be passed over by him, had he known the record of them; and that he did know it, alludes to it…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28The increase of his house shall depart - Septuagint, “Destruction shall bring his house to an end.” The word rendered “depart” (יגל yı̂gel from גלה gâlâh ), means, properly, “shall go into captivity.” The sense is, that whatever he had laid up in his house would entirely disappear. His goods shall flow away - What he had gained would seem to flow away like water. In the day of his wrath - The wrath of God - for so the connection demands.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 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. Let us receive the good…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. increase--prosperity. Ill got--ill gone. flow away--like waters that run dry in summer; using Job's own metaphor against himself (Job 6:15-17; 2Sa 14:14; Mi 1:4). his wrath--God's.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 20:28

• Wicked (People)
• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Rain
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• Day
• Zophar

Commentaries on Job 20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings