Job 20:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

(Psalms 25:7); so the Vulgate. Gesenius has 'full of youth'-namely, in the fullness of his youthful strength he shall be laid in the dust. But "bones" plainly alludes to Job's diseases, probably to Job's own words (Job 19:20). Umbreit translates [`ªluwmaaw], instead, of "youth," 'full of his secret sins.' as in Psalms 90:8; his secret guilt in his time of seeming righteousness, like secret poison, at last lays him in the dust. The English version is best, Zophar alludes to Job's own words (Job 17:16), "Our rest together is in the dust."

With him. His sin had so pervaded his nature that it accompanies him to the grave: for eternity the sinner cannot get With him. His sin had so pervaded his nature that it accompanies him to the grave: for eternity the sinner cannot get rid of it (Revelation 22:11).

Job 20:11

11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.