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Job 20:19
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For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;he seized a house he did not build.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.
because they troubled the poor and left them with nothing. They have taken houses they did not build.
For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
"For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
For he has crushed and forsaken the poor;He has seized a house which he has not built.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
because they cheated the poor and took their homes.
"For he crushed and abandoned the poor, seizing houses he did not build,
For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
because he hurt the poor and left them with nothing. He took houses he did not build.
Because he has thought to forsake the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.
because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.
for he has oppressed; he has abandoned the poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.
For he crushed and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.
And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them.
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:
And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.
For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.
For he brake, and made nakid the hows of a pore man; he rauyschide, and bildide it not.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor, He has violently seized a house which he did not build.
For they oppressed the poor and left them destitute. They foreclosed on their homes.
For he has taken from the poor and left them with nothing. He has taken houses which he has not built.
For they have crushed and abandoned the poor, they have seized a house that they did not build.
For he hath oppressed - hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
"For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Because: Job 21:27, Job 21:28, Job 22:6, Job 24:2-12, Job 31:13-22, Job 31:38, Job 31:39, Job 35:9, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:4, Psalms 10:18, Psalms 12:5, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 4:1-3, James 2:6, James 2:13, James 5:4
oppressed: Heb. crushed, Deuteronomy 28:33, Lamentations 3:34
he hath violently: Job 18:15, Job 24:2, 1 Kings 21:19, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:8, Micah 2:2, Micah 2:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Leviticus 6:4 - which he Leviticus 25:14 - General 2 Chronicles 16:10 - oppressed Job 22:20 - our substance Job 27:13 - the heritage Psalms 62:10 - Trust Proverbs 11:17 - but Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Proverbs 15:6 - in the revenues Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Daniel 5:6 - the king's Habakkuk 2:9 - that coveteth an evil covetousness
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor,.... Having oppressed, crushed, and broken the poor to pieces, he leaves them so without pity and compassion for them, and without giving them any relief; he first by oppression makes them poor, or however poorer still, and then leaves them in such circumstances; for this does not suppose that he once was a favourer of them, and afforded them assistance in their necessities, and afterwards forsook them; but rather, as Ben Gersom gives the sense, he does not leave the poor until he has oppressed and crushed them, and then he does; Mr. Broughton's reading of the words agrees with the former sense, "he oppresseth and leaveth poor":
[because] he hath violently taken away an house which he built not; an house which did not belong to him, he had no property in or right unto, which, as he had not bought, he had not built; and therefore could lay no rightful claim unto it, and yet this he took in a violent manner from the right owner of it, see Micah 2:2; or "and", or "but shall not build it" a, or "buildeth it not"; he took it away with an intention to pull it down, and build a stately palace in the room of it; but either his substance was taken from him, or he taken away by death before he could finish it, and so either through neglect, or want of opportunity, or of money, did not what he thought to have done.
a ולא יבנהו "et non aedificabit eam", Pagninus, Montanus; "et non aedificat eam", Cocceius, Schultens; "non autem", Beza; "sed non", Schmidt, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because he hath oppressed - Margin, “crushed.” Such is the Hebrew.
And forsaken the poor - He has plundered them, and then forsaken them - as robbers do. The meaning is, that he had done this by his oppressive manner of dealing, and then left them to suffer and pine in want.
He hath violently taken away an house which he builded not - That is, by overreaching and harsh dealings he has come in possession of dwellings which he did not build, or purchase in any proper manner. It does not mean that he had done this by violence - for Zophar is not describing a robber, but he means that he took advantage of the needs of the poor and obtained their property. This is often done still. A rich man takes advantage of the needs of the poor, and obtains their little farm or house for much less than it is worth. He takes a mortgage, and then forecloses it, and buys the property himself for much less than its real value, and thus practices a species of the worst kind of robbery. Such a man, Zophar says, must expect punishment - and if there is any man who has occasion to dread the wrath of heaven it is he.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:19. He hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor — Literally, He hath broken in pieces the forsaken of the poor; כי רצץ עזב דלים ki ritstsats azab dallim. The poor have fled from famine, and left their children behind them; and this hard-hearted wretch, meaning Job all the while, has suffered them to perish, when he might have saved them alive.
He hath violently taken away a house which he builded not — Or rather, He hath thrown down a house, and hath not rebuilt it. By neglecting or destroying the forsaken orphans of the poor, mentioned above, he has destroyed a house, (a family,) while he might, by helping the wretched, have preserved the family from becoming extinct.
