Job 20:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointedi unto him by God. ”

• Job 20:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This is the portion of a wicked man - This conclusion is similar to that which Bildad drew at the close of his speech, Job 18:21 . Zophar intended, undoubtedly, that Job should apply it to himse...

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• Job 20:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from (r) God, and the heritage appointed unto him by (s) God. (r) Thus God will plague the wicked. (s) Against God, thinking to excuse himself, and to escape G...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

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• Job 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. This is the portion - As God has dealt with the murmuring Israelites, and with the rebellious sons of Korah...

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• Job 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. Appointed - not as a matter of chance, but by the divine 'decree' (margin) and settled principle (cf....

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - 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....

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God ,.... All before related, and which is very different from the portion of a good man, which is God himself, both here and hereafter; the wicked man has...

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• Job 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. Ver. 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God ] A portion God alloweth the wicked in this life,...

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• Job 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This is the portion of the wicked man from God Allotted to him, designed for him, as his portion: and he will have it for a perpetuity; it is what he must abide by. And the heritage appointed unto...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.   24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the b...

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• Job 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From God; who like a wise master of a feast gives to every man his proper portion, and as a just judge distributes to him according to his deserts. The heritage appointed unto him by God, Heb. t...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - 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...

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• Job 20:29 - 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 )....

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• Job 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly

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• Job 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 29:20-28 ; Job 18:21 ; Job 27:13 ; Job 31:2 ; Job 31:3 ; Lamentations 3:38 ; Matthew 24:51 ; Psalms 11:5 ; Psalms 11:6

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• Job 20:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Heritage — Heb. the heritage; so called, to denote the stability and assurance of it, that it is as firm as an inheritance to the right heir; and in opposition to that inheritance which he had gott...

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