Tree of Life Version
Job 27:19
19“He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone!
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
17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and the upright will divide the silver. 18The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made for a watchman. “He lies down wealthy, but will gather no more. When he opens his eyes, all is gone! 20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm sweeps him away at night. 21The east wind picks him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of 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 14:13“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me until Your wrath has passed! Oh that You would set a time for me and then remember me!
- Job 21:23One dies in his full strength, completely secure and at ease.
- Job 30:23For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
- Genesis 49:10The scepter will not pass from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs will come. To him will be the obedience of the peoples.
- Jeremiah 8:2They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, and after which they have walked and sought, and which they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or buried, but will be like dung on the face of the ground.
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but the chaff He shall burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
- Matthew 23:37“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
- Job 20:7he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
- Psalms 58:9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
- Psalms 73:19How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.
- Job 8:22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more!”
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?
- Job 24:24They are exalted for a little while and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, they are like heads of grain they wither.
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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