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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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)A flood will sweep away their house. God’s anger will descend on them in torrents.
Context of Job 20:28
26total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 27The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him. A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath. 29Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by 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 children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
- Job 5:5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 27:14However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
- 2 Kings 20:17The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.
- Revelation 18:17In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’ “Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off.
- Proverbs 11:4Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
- Matthew 16:26What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
- James 5:1Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is 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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