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Job 27:19
19Their riches quickly disappear. They are rich when they go to sleep, but poor when they wake up.
Job 27:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
- New International Version (NIV)He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The rich man will lie down, But not be gathered up; He opens his eyes, And he is no more.
Context of Job 27:19
17But one day righteous people will wear those clothes. Honest people will share the silver among themselves. 18The houses that wicked people build are not strong. They are as weak as a spider's web, or a shepherd's hut, Their riches quickly disappear. They are rich when they go to sleep, but poor when they wake up. 20Troubles come to them like a flood of water, and they are very afraid. A storm comes in the night to carry them away. 21The east wind picks them up and takes then far away. It removes them from their homes.
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עָשִׁ֣יר יִ֭שְׁכַּב וְלֹ֣א יֵאָסֵ֑ף עֵינָ֖יו פָּקַ֣ח וְאֵינֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:19
- Job 14:13Please hide me in the place where dead people go! Hide me there until you are no longer angry. Decide how long I must be there, and then remember me again!
- Job 21:23One person has good health all his life. Even when he is ready to die, he still lives a safe and happy life.
- Job 30:23I know that you are already taking me to my death. Everyone who lives has to go to that place.
- Genesis 49:10Judah's descendants will always rule as king. They will continue to hold the stick and the sceptre that show the king's authority. They will do that until the man comes who truly has that authority. People from all nations will obey that king.
- Jeremiah 8:2They will leave the bones all over the ground, under the sun, the moon and the stars. Those were the gods that my people loved. They served them and they worshipped them. Nobody will take their bones and bury them again. They will lie on the ground, like dung.
- Matthew 3:12He is like a farmer that brings the wheat home from his field. He uses a special tool to throw the wheat up in the air. He does this to make the wheat seeds separate from what remains. Then he cleans his yard. He carefully stores all the seeds to keep them safe. But he burns everything else in a great fire that nobody can put out.’
- Matthew 23:37Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed God's prophets. They have thrown stones to kill other people that God has sent to you. Many times, I have wanted to bring all of your people near to me. A female bird covers her babies with her body to make them safe. But you would not let me keep you from danger like that.
- Job 20:7But he will disappear for ever, like dung that people throw away. His friends will ask, “Where is he?”
- Psalms 58:9Remove them quickly, more quickly than pots become hot over a fire of thorn bushes.
- Psalms 73:19It will take just a moment to destroy them! Great fear will sweep them away!
- Job 8:22People who hate you will be ashamed. Wicked people will have nowhere to live.’
- Job 14:10But when people lose their strength and they die, that is the end. After they die, where do they go?
- Job 24:24Wicked people may have success for a short time, but suddenly they disappear! Like everyone else, they fall to the ground. They become like crops that people cut down at harvest time.”
Commentaries on Job 27:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19The rich man shall lie down - In the grave. But he shall not be gathered - Neither have a respectable burial among men, nor be gathered with the righteous in the kingdom of God. It may be that Job alludes here to an opinion relative to the state of certain persons after death, prevalent in all nations in ancient times, viz., that those whose funeral rites had not been duly performed, wander about as ghosts, and find no rest. He openeth his eyes - In the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19The rich man - That is, the rich man who is wicked. Shall lie down - Shalt die - for so the connection demands. But he shall not be gathered - In an honorable burial. The slain in battle are gathered together for burial; but he shall be unburied. The expressions “to be gathered,” “to be gathered to one‘s fathers,” frequently occur in the Scriptures, and seem to be used to denote a peaceful and happy death and an honorable burial. There was the idea of a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-23Verses 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 destruction. While he lived…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2311-23. 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 Zophar's opinion, as stated by himself? The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 27
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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