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

Bible Comments

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 is, He made some poor by his oppressions, and others, that were poor, he suffered to perish for want of that relief which he might have afforded them. He hath violently taken away a house, &c. Namely, for his own use; which he builded not Which was none of his.

Job 20:19

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