Job 20:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because he hath oppressedf and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; ”

• Job 20:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Because he hath oppressed - Margin, “crushed.” Such is the Hebrew. And forsaken the poor - He has plundered them, and then forsaken them - as robbers do. The meaning is, that he had done this...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; He hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor - Literally, He hath broken...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; Oppressed - whereas he ought to have espoused their cause ( 2 Chronic...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Because he hath oppressed and forsaken... — For these insinuations there was not a vestige of ground, but Job formally rebuts them in Job 31

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? (6) Though his excellency mount up to...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor ,.... Having oppressed, crushed, and broken the poor to pieces, he leaves them so without pity and compassion for them, and without giving them...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; Ver. 19. Because he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor ]. Heb. Becau...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Because he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor By his oppression he brought men to utter poverty, and then forsook them in that destitute state, affording them no mercy nor help. Or, the meaning i...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Misery of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and h...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  By his oppression he brought men to utter poverty, and then forsook or left them in that forlorn estate, affording no mercy nor help to them. Or, some he made poor by his oppression, and others that...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Because he hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poor. Social wickedness What is it that excites all this Divine antagonism and judgment? Was the object of it a theological heretic? Was the man...

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

  Read the comments

• Job 20:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 21:19 ; 1 Samuel 12:3 ; 1 Samuel 12:4 ; Amos 4:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 28:33 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1 ; Ecclesiastes 5:8 ; Ezekiel 22:29 ; Isaiah 5:7 ; Isaiah 5:8 ; James 2:13 ; James 2:6 ;...

  Read the comments