God’s Word Translation
Job 27:19
19He may go to bed rich, but he’ll never be rich again. When he opens his eyes, nothing will be left.
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
17righteous people will wear what he piles up, and the innocent will divide the silver ⌞among themselves⌟. 18He builds his house like a moth, like a shack that a watchman makes. He may go to bed rich, but he’ll never be rich again. When he opens his eyes, nothing will be left. 20Terrors overtake him like a flood. A windstorm snatches him away at night. 21The east wind carries him away, and he’s gone. It sweeps him from his place.
Read all of Job 27Job 27:19 word by word
עָשִׁ֣יר יִ֭שְׁכַּב וְלֹ֣א יֵאָסֵ֑ף עֵינָ֖יו פָּקַ֣ח וְאֵינֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 27:19
- Job 14:13I wish you would hide me in Sheol and keep me hidden there until your anger cools. Set a specific time for me when you will remember me.
- Job 21:23One person dies in his prime and feels altogether happy and contented.
- Job 30:23I know you will lead me to death, to the dwelling place appointed for all living beings.
- Genesis 49:10A scepter will never depart from Judah nor a ruler’s staff from between his feet until Shiloh comes and the people obey him.
- Jeremiah 8:2They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky. These are the things that they had loved, served, gone after, sought, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered or buried, but they will become manure on the ground.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into a barn, but he will burn the husks in a fire that can never be put out.”
- Matthew 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you were not willing!
- Job 20:7he will certainly rot like his own feces. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
- Psalms 58:9Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
- Psalms 73:19They are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away by terror!
- Job 8:22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will cease to exist.”
- Job 14:10But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?
- Job 24:24⌞Such people⌟ may be prosperous for a little while, but then they’re gone. They are brought down low and disappear like everything else. They wither like heads of grain.
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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