New International Version
Job 20:11
11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
Job 20:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- English Standard Version (ESV)His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
- New King James Version (NKJV)His bones are full of his youthful vigor, But it will lie down with him in the dust.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust.
Context of Job 20:11
9The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more. 10His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth. The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust. 12“Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, 13though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,
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עַ֭צְמוֹתָיו מָלְא֣וּ עֲלוּמָ֑יו וְ֝עִמּ֗וֹ עַל־עָפָ֥ר תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 20:11
- Job 13:26For you write down bitter things against me and make me reap the sins of my youth.
- Job 19:20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
- Psalms 25:7Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.
- Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
- Ezekiel 32:27But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.
- Job 21:26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- Proverbs 14:32When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.
- Ezekiel 24:13“ ‘Now your impurity is lewdness. Because I tried to cleanse you but you would not be cleansed from your impurity, you will not be clean again until my wrath against you has subsided.
- John 8:21Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
- Acts 1:25to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.”
Commentaries on Job 20:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11His bones are full of the sin of his youth - Our translators have followed the Vulgate, Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiae ejus; "his bones shall be filled with the sins of his youth." The Syriac and Arabic have, his bones are full of marrow; and the Targum is to the same sense. At first view it might appear that Zophar refers to those infirmities in old age, which are the consequences of youthful vices and irregularities. עלומו alumau, which we…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11His bones are full of the sin of his youth - The words “of the sin” in our common translation are supplied by the translators. Gesenius and Noyes suppose that the Hebrew means, “His bones are full of youth;” that is, full of vigor and strength, and the idea according to this would be, that he would be cut off in the fulness of his strength. Dr. Good renders it forcibly, “His secret lusts shall follow his bones, Yea, they shall press upon him in the dust.”…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hiding it and keeping it under his tongue, denotes concealment of his beloved lust, and delight therein. But He who knows what is in the heart, knows what is under the tongue, and will discover it. The love of the world, and of the wealth of it, also is wickedness, and man sets his heart upon these…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. (Psa 25:7), so Vulgate. Gesenius has "full of youth"; namely, in the fulness of his youthful strength he shall be laid in the dust. But "bones" plainly alludes to Job's disease, probably to Job's own words (Job 19:20). Umbreit translates, "full of his secret sins," as in Psa 90:8; his secret guilt in his time of seeming righteousness, like secret poison, at last lays him in the dust. The English Version is best. Zophar alludes to Job's own words (Job…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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