New King James Version
Job 20:28
28The increase of his house will depart, And his goods will flow away in the day of His 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 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 is reserved for his treasures. An unfanned fire will consume him; It shall go ill with him who is left in his tent. 27The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him. The increase of his house will depart, And his goods will flow away in the day of His wrath. 29This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The heritage appointed to him 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 will seek the favor of the poor, And his hands will restore his wealth.
- Job 5:5Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.
- Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- 2 Kings 20:17‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.
- Revelation 18:17For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.’ Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance
- Proverbs 11:4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day of the Lord’s wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell in the land.
- Matthew 16:26For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
- James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon 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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