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 his riches disappear in the dark. God will send a fire to destroy him. It will destroy all his things that remain. 27The heavens will show that he is guilty. People on earth will speak against him. A flood will destroy his house and everything that he has. That will happen on the day when God punishes people because he is angry with them. 29That is how God punishes wicked people. God has decided to punish them as they deserve.’

Job 20:28 word by word

יִ֭גֶל יְב֣וּל בֵּית֑וֹ נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת בְּי֣וֹם אַפּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The increaseיְבוּלyebûl · cropsH2981
• of his houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• shall departגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: removeH1540
• shall flow awayנָגַרnâgar · to pourH5064
• in the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of his wrathאַף'aph · face: angerH639

Cross-references for Job 20:28

• Job 20:10His children will have to give things back to poor people. Those are the valuable things that he took from them.
• Job 5:5Hungry people take their crops to eat. They even take them from among the weeds. Thirsty people take the fool's money for themselves.
• Job 27:14Wicked people may have many children, but they will die in war. Their children will never have enough food to eat.
• 2 Kings 20:17“Understand this! One day, soldiers from Babylon will carry away all your valuable things. Everything that you and your ancestors have stored here until now will go to Babylon. They will leave nothing here.
• Revelation 18:17But in one single hour God has destroyed all those valuable things.’ All the sailors and the people who travel on ships will also be sad. They include every ship's captain, and everyone who works on ships on the sea. They will stand a long way from the city.
• Proverbs 11:4When it is time for God to punish you, money will not help you to escape. But if you are righteous, that will save you from death.
• Zephaniah 1:18Their money will not save them, on the day when the Lord is angry. He watches. And he is angry when his people love other gods. So he will send fire on the earth. Yes, he will quickly kill all the people who live in Judah.
• Matthew 16:26A person may get everything in the whole world for himself. But if he loses his life, it will not be any good for him. There is nothing that a person can give to get back his life.
• James 5:1Now, listen to me, you rich people. Weep and cry aloud, because many troubles will soon happen to 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
• Short
• 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