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20:19 For <03588> he has oppressed <07533> the poor <01800> and abandoned <05800> them; he has seized <01497> a house <01004> which he did not <03808> build <01129>. 20:20 For <03588> he knows <03045> no <03808> satisfaction <07961> in his appetite <0990>; he does not <03808> let anything he desires <02530> escape <04422>. 20:21 “Nothing <0369> is left <08300> for him to devour <0400>; that is why <03651> his prosperity <02898> does not <03808> last <02342>. 20:22 In the fullness <04390> of his sufficiency <05607>, distress <03334> overtakes him. the full force of misery <06001> will come <0935> upon him. 20:23 “While he is <01961> filling <04390> his belly <0990>, God sends <07971> his burning <02740> anger <0639> against him, and rains down <04305> his blows <03894> upon <05921> him. 20:24 If he flees <01272> from an iron <01270> weapon <05402>, then an arrow from a bronze <05154> bow <07198> pierces <02498> him. 20:25 When he pulls <08025> it out <08025> and it comes out <03318> of his back <01465>, the gleaming point <01300> out of his liver <04846>, terrors <0367> come <01980> over <05921> him. 20:26 Total <03605> darkness <02822> waits <02934> to receive his treasures <06845>; a fire <0784> which has not <03808> been kindled <05301> will consume <0398> him and devour <03415> what is left <08300> in his tent <0168>. 20:27 The heavens <08064> reveal <01540> his iniquity <05771>; the earth <0776> rises up <06965> against him. 20:28 A flood <02981> will carry off <01540> his house <01004>, rushing waters <05064> on the day <03117> of God’s wrath <0639>. 20:29 Such <02088> is the lot God <0430> allots the wicked <07563>, and the heritage <05159> of his appointment <0561> from God <0410>.”

• Job 20:1-29 -- Zophar's Second Speech

• Wicked

  [nave] WICKED Compared with: Abominable branches, Isa. 14:19; ashes under the feet, Mal. 4:3; bad fishes, Matt. 13:48; beasts, Psa. 49:12; 2 Pet. 2:12; the blind, Zeph. 1:17; Matt. 15:14; bronze and iron, Jer. 6:28; Ezek. 22:18; br...
  

• Uncharitableness

  [nave] UNCHARITABLENESS. Isa. 29:20, 21; Matt. 7:1-5 Luke 6:37-42. Luke 12:57; John 7:24; John 8:7; Rom. 2:1; Rom. 14:1-15; 1 Cor. 4:3-5, 7; 1 Cor. 13:1-6; Jas. 4:11, 12 See: Accusation, False; Charitableness; Slander; Speaking, E...
  

• STRIKE

  [isbe] STRIKE - strik: The verbs "to strike" and "to stroke" (latter not in English Versions) have the same derivation, and originally "strike" was the intrans, "stroke" the transitive form. "Strike" however, became used in both se...
  

• STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY

  [isbe] STRAIT; STRAITEN; STRAITLY - strat, strat'-'-n, strat'-il: The word "strait" and its compounds are used in English Versions of the Bible in the literal sense of "narrow" (tsar, 2 Ki 6:1; Isa 49:20; mutsaq, Job 37:10; 'atsal,...
  

• STRAIGHT; STRAIGHTWAY

  [isbe] STRAIGHT; STRAIGHTWAY - strat, strat'-wa: "Straiglit" and "strait" are two entirely different words that have no connection with each other in English, the former being derived from the Anglo-Saxon, while the latter has come...
  

• METALS

  [smith] The Hebrews, in common with other ancient nations, were acquainted with nearly all the metals known to modern metallurgy, whether as the products of their own soil or the results of intercourse with foreigners. One of the ear...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• IRON (1)

  [isbe] IRON (1) - i'-urn (barzel; sideros): It is generally believed that the art of separating iron from its ores and making it into useful forms was not known much earlier than 1000 BC, and that the making of brass (bronze) anted...
  

• INSPIRATION, 8-18

  [isbe] INSPIRATION, 8-18 - 8. The "Oracles of God": This view of the Scriptures as a compact mass of words of God occasioned the formation of a designation for them by which this their character was explicitly expressed. This desig...
  

• GOODS

  [isbe] GOODS - goodz (rekhush, Tubh; ta huparchonta): In the Old Testament rekhush ("substance") is most frequently translated "goods," as in Gen 14:11,12,16,21, etc.; Tubh is also 3 times so translated in the King James Version (G...
  

• GLITTER; GLITTERING

  [isbe] GLITTER; GLITTERING - glit'-er, glit'-er-ing (baraq, "lightning"): The word is used in sense of "glittering" in the Old Testament with "sword," "spear" (Dt 32:41; Job 20:25; Ezek 21:10,28; Nah 3:3; Hab 3:11). In Ezek 21:10 t...
  

• GALL

  [isbe] GALL - gol: (1) ro'sh, or rosh (Dt 32:32 only, "grapes of gall"): Some very bitter plant, the bitterness as in (2) being associated with the idea of poison. Dt 29:18 margin "rosh, a poisonpus herb"; Lam 3:5,19; Jer 8:14; 9:1...
  [smith] Mereerah , denoting "that which is bitter;" hence the term is applied to the "bile" or "gall" (the fluid secreted by the liver), from its intense bitterness, (Job 16:13; 20:25) it is also used of the "poison" of serpents, (J...
  

• Furrow

  [ebd] an opening in the ground made by the plough (Ps. 65:10; Hos. 10:4, 10).
  

• DESIRE

  [isbe] DESIRE - de-zir': The verb "to desire" in the Scriptures usually means "to long for," "to ask for," "to demand," and may be used in a good or bad sense (compare Dt 7:25 the King James Version). the Revised Version (British a...
  

• DAY

  [isbe] DAY - da (yom; hemera): This common word has caused some trouble to plain readers, because they have not noticed that the word is used in several different senses in the English Bible. When the different uses of the word are...
  

• Copper

  [ebd] derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called "Cyprian brass," occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered "brass," and sometimes "steel" (2...
  

• CONSUME

  [isbe] CONSUME - kon-sum' (akhal, kalah, tamam; analisko): In Old Testament 'akhal ("to eat," "devour") occurs very frequently, and is translated "consumed" (Gen 31:40; Ex 15:7; Ps 78:63, etc.); kalah ("to finish") is also frequent...
  

• BODY

  [isbe] BODY - bod'-i: I. PHILOLOGICAL: Generally speaking, the Old Testament language employs no fixed term for the human body as an entire organism in exact opposition to "soul" or "spirit." Various terms were employed, each of wh...
  

• BLOW

  [isbe] BLOW - blo (nashaph): Used with reference to the wind (Ex 15:10; Ps 78:26; 147:18; pneo, "to breathe," Lk 12:55; Jn 3:8; Rev 7:1); taqa`, with reference to trumpet sound (Nu 10:3-10; 31:6 the King James Version; Jdg 7:18,20;...
  

• ARCHERY

  [isbe] ARCHERY - ar'-cher-i: (1) The art of using the arcus, or bow and arrow for hunting and in battle is of great antiquity. It is mentioned in Gen 21:20, as well as in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and depicted on Egyptian monument...
  

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