New English Translation
Job 20:28
28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
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
26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him. A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath. 29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”
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יִ֭גֶל יְב֣וּל בֵּית֑וֹ נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת בְּי֣וֹם אַפּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 20:28
- Job 20:10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.
- Job 5:5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
- Job 27:14If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
- 2 Kings 20:17‘Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
- Revelation 18:17because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast – seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off
- Proverbs 11:4Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth.”
- Matthew 16:26For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
- James 5:1Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on 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
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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
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