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Job 20:11

"His bones are full of youthful strength But it lies down with him in the dust.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Death;   Hypocrisy;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sin;   Sins;   Young People;   Youth, Sins of;   The Topic Concordance - Oppression;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;   Diseases;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ashes;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His frame may be full of youthful vigor,but it will lie down with him in dust.
Hebrew Names Version
His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
King James Version
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
English Standard Version
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
New Century Version
They had the strength of their youth in their bones, but it will lie with them in the dust of death.
New English Translation
His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
New American Standard Bible
"His bones are full of his youthful strength, But it lies down with him in the dust.
World English Bible
His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust.
Legacy Standard Bible
His bones are full of his youthful vigor,But it lies down with him in the dust.
Berean Standard Bible
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
Contemporary English Version
Indeed, the wicked will die and go to their graves in the prime of life.
Complete Jewish Bible
His bones may be filled with [the vigor of] his youth, but it will join him lying in the dust.
Darby Translation
His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Easy-to-Read Version
When he was young, his bones were strong, but, like the rest of his body, they will soon lie in the dirt.
George Lamsa Translation
His bones are full of marrow, but they shall lie down with him in the dust.
Good News Translation
Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.
Lexham English Bible
His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on the dust.
Literal Translation
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it lies down on the dust with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
From his youth his bones are ful of vyce, which shal lie downe wt him in ye earth.
American Standard Version
His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Bible in Basic English
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
King James Version (1611)
His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
From his youth his bones are full of pleasures, but now shall it lye downe within him in the earth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His bones have been filled with vigour of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
English Revised Version
His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise boonys schulen be fillid with the vices of his yong wexynge age; and schulen slepe with hym in dust.
Update Bible Version
His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Webster's Bible Translation
His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
New King James Version
His bones are full of his youthful vigor, But it will lie down with him in the dust.
New Living Translation
Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust.
New Life Bible
His bones are full of the strength of the young, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
New Revised Standard
Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him - in the dust, shall it lie down.
Douay-Rheims Bible
His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
Revised Standard Version
His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
Young's Literal Translation
His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His bones are full of his youthful vigor, But it lies down with him in the dust.

Contextual Overview

10"His sons favor the poor [and pay his obligations], And his hands give back his [ill-gotten] wealth. 11"His bones are full of youthful strength But it lies down with him in the dust.12"Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth And he hides it under his tongue, 13Though he desires it and will not let it go But holds it in his mouth, 14Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach; It is the venom of vipers within him. 15"He swallows [his ill-gotten] riches, But will vomit them up; God will drive them out of his belly. 16"He sucks the poison of vipers [which ill-gotten wealth contains]; The viper's tongue slays him. 17"He does not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter [to enjoy his wealth]. 18"He gives back what he has labored for and attained And cannot swallow it [down to enjoy it]; As to the riches of his labor, He cannot even enjoy them. 19"For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has violently taken away houses which he did not build.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bones: Job 13:26, Job 19:20, Psalms 25:7, Proverbs 5:11-13, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Ezekiel 32:27

which shall lie: Job 21:26, Proverbs 14:32, Ezekiel 24:13, John 8:21, John 8:24, Acts 1:25

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:16 - sleep Job 33:19 - pain Ecclesiastes 11:10 - and put Ecclesiastes 12:7 - dust Isaiah 57:20 - like Jeremiah 2:19 - bitter Jeremiah 31:19 - I did Hosea 7:2 - their own

Cross-References

Genesis 12:12
so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me [to acquire you], but they will let you live.
Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev (the South country), and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived temporarily in Gerar.
Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not yet come near her; so he said, "Lord, will you kill a people who are righteous and innocent and blameless [regarding Sarah]?
Genesis 22:12
The LORD said, "Do not reach out [with the knife in] your hand against the boy, and do nothing to [harm] him; for now I know that you fear God [with reverence and profound respect], since you have not withheld from Me your son, your only son [of promise]."
Genesis 26:7
The men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife"—thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is very beautiful."
Genesis 42:18
Now Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and [you may] live, for I fear God:
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].
Job 28:28
"But to man He said, 'Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.'"
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth,.... Man is born in sin, and is a transgressor from the womb; and the youthful age is addicted to many sins, as pride, passion, lust, luxury, intemperance, and uncleanness; and these are sometimes brought to mind, and men are convinced of them, and corrected for them, when more advanced in years; and if not stopped in them, and reformed from them, they are continued in an old age; and the effects of them are seen in bodily diseases, which a debauched life brings upon them, not only to the rottenness and consumption of their flesh, but to the putrefaction of their bones; though this may be understood of the whole body, the bones, the principal and stronger parts, being put for the whole, and denote that general decay and waste which gluttony, drunkenness, and uncleanness, bring into, see Proverbs 5:11; Some interpret this of "secret" sins p, as the word is thought to signify, which, if not cleansed from and pardoned, will be found and charged on them, and be brought into judgment, and they punished for them, Psalms 90:8;

which shall lie down with him in the dust: to be in the dust is to be in the state of the dead, to lie in the grave, where men lie down and sleep as on a bed; and this is common to good and bad men, all sleep in the dust of the earth, but with this difference, the sins of wicked men lie down with them; as they live in sin, they die in their sins; not that their sins die with them, and are no more, but they continue on them, and with them, and will rise with them, and will follow them to judgment, and remain with them after, and the guilt and remorse of which will be always on their consciences, and is that worm that never dies: of such it is said, that they "are gone down to hell with their weapons of war"; with the same enmity against God, against Christ, and his people, and all that is good, they had in their lifetime: and "they have laid their swords under their heads"; in the grave, and shall rise with the same revengeful spirit they ever had against the saints, see

Revelation 20:8; "but their iniquities shall be upon their bones"; both them, and the punishment of them, Ezekiel 32:27. The Jewish commentator last mentioned interprets the whole verse of Balaam, who died at the age of thirty three, and whose prosperity died with him, he leaving nothing to his children; and so he interprets the following verses of the curse he was forced to hide, which he would gladly have pronounced, and of the riches he received from Balak falling into the hands of the Israelites.

p עלומיו "ejus occultis", Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His bones are full of the sin of his youth - The words “of the sin” in our common translation are supplied by the translators. Gesenius and Noyes suppose that the Hebrew means, “His bones are full of youth;” that is, full of vigor and strength, and the idea according to this would be, that he would be cut off in the fulness of his strength. Dr. Good renders it forcibly,

“His secret lusts shall follow his bones,

Yea, they shall press upon him in the dust.”

The Vulgate renders it, “His bones are full of the sins of his youth.” The Septuagint, “His bones are full of his youth.” The Chaldee Paraphrase, “His bones are full of his strength.” The Hebrew literally is, “His bones are full of his secret things” (עלוּמו ‛âlûmāŷ) - referring, as I suppose, to the “secret, long-cherished” faults of his life; the corrupt propensities and desires of his soul which had been seated in his very nature, and which would adhere to him, leaving a withering influence on his whole system in advancing years. The effect is that which is so often seen, when vices corrupt the very physical frame, and where the results are seen long in future life. The effect would be seen in the diseases which they engendered in his system, and in the certainty with which they would bring him down to the grave. The Syriac renders it, “marrow,” as if the idea were that he would die full of vigor and strength. But the sense is rather that his secret lusts would work his certain ruin.

Which shall lie down with him - That is, the results of his secret sins shall lie down with him in the grave. He will never get rid of them. He has so long indulged in his sins; they have so thoroughly pervaded his nature, and he so delights to cherish them, that they will attend him to the tomb. There is truth in this representation. Wicked people often indulge in secret sin so long that it seems to pervade the whole system. Nothing will remove it; and it lives and acts until the body is committed to the dust, and the soul sinks ruined into hell.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 20:11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth — Our translators have followed the VULGATE, Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiae ejus; "his bones shall be filled with the sins of his youth." The SYRIAC and ARABIC have, his bones are full of marrow; and the TARGUM is to the same sense. At first view it might appear that Zophar refers to those infirmities in old age, which are the consequences of youthful vices and irregularities. עלומו alumau, which we translate his youth, may be rendered his hidden things; as if he had said, his secret vices bring down his strength to the dust. For this rendering Rosenmuller contends, and several other German critics. Mr. Good contends for the same.


 
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