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Job 27:13
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This is a wicked man’s lot from God,the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from Shaddai.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
"Here is what God has planned for evil people, and what the Almighty will give to cruel people:
This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.
"This [which I am about to explain] is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the inheritance which tyrants and oppressors receive from the Almighty:
"This is the portion of a wicked person from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty:
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shal receiue of the Almightie.
"This is the portion of a wicked man from God,And the inheritance which the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
This is the wicked man's portion from God-the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal.
"This is God's reward for the wicked man, the heritage oppressors receive from Shaddai:
This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty:—
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.
[Zophar]
This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people."This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of ruthless men that they shall receive from the Almighty.
sayege: This is the porcion that the wicked shall haue of God, & the heretage that Tyrauntes shal receaue of ye Allmightie.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressours which they shall receiue of the Almightie.
Saying: This is the portion that the wicked haue of God, and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie.
This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
This is the part of a wickid man anentis God, and the eritage of violent men, ether rauenours, whiche thei schulen take of Almyyti God.
This is the portion of [the] wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:
This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
"This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
"This is what God gives to a sinful man, the gift that a man who makes it hard for others receives from the All-powerful.
"This is the portion of the wicked with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
This, is the portion of a lawless man with GOD, That, the heritage of tyrants - from the Almighty, he shall receive.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:
This [is] the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
"I'll quote your own words back to you: "‘This is how God treats the wicked, this is what evil people can expect from God Almighty: Their children—all of them—will die violent deaths; they'll never have enough bread to put on the table. They'll be wiped out by the plague, and none of the widows will shed a tear when they're gone. Even if they make a lot of money and are resplendent in the latest fashions, It's the good who will end up wearing the clothes and the decent who will divide up the money. They build elaborate houses that won't survive a single winter. They go to bed wealthy and wake up poor. Terrors pour in on them like flash floods— a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night, A cyclone sweeps them up—gone! Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint. Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them; they run this way and that, but there's no place to hide— Pummeled by the weather, blown to kingdom come by the storm.'"
"This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the portion: Job 20:29, Job 31:3, Psalms 11:6, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Isaiah 3:11, 2 Peter 2:9
the heritage: Job 15:20-35, Job 20:19-29, Psalms 12:5, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Malachi 3:5, James 5:4-6
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:24 - your wives Esther 9:10 - ten sons Job 20:5 - the triumphing Job 31:2 - General Psalms 37:9 - evildoers Psalms 103:6 - executeth Proverbs 11:18 - wicked Proverbs 14:11 - house Proverbs 21:12 - wisely
Cross-References
The Lord said to her, "The leaders of two nations are in your body. Two nations will come from you, and they will be divided. One of them will be stronger, and the older will serve the younger."
But Jacob said, "First, promise me that you will give them to me." So Esau made an oath to him and sold his rights as the firstborn son to Jacob.
So listen, son, and do what I tell you.
Isaac said, "Are you really my son Esau?" Jacob answered, "Yes, I am."
May God give you plenty of rain, good crops, and wine.
Esau said, "His name is Jacob. That is the right name for him. He has tricked me twice. He took away my rights as the firstborn son. And now he has taken away my blessing." Then Esau said, "Have you saved any blessing for me?"
When your brother forgets what you did to him, I will send a servant to bring you back. I don't want to lose both of my sons the same day."
I will make sure he is safe. I will be responsible for him. If I don't bring him back to you, you can blame me forever.
Abigail fell at his feet and said, "Sir, please let me talk to you. Listen to what I say. Blame me for what happened.
The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "Let the blame be on me, my lord and king. You and your kingdom are innocent."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God,.... Not to be punished in this life, but after death. This is what Job undertook to teach his friends, and is the purport of what follows in this chapter. A wicked man is not only one that has been so from the womb, and is openly and notoriously a wicked man, but one also that is so secretly, under a mask of sobriety, religion, and godliness, and is an hypocrite, for of such Job speaks in the context; and the portion of such a man is not what he has in this life, which is oftentimes a very affluent one as to the things of this world, but what he has after death, which is banishment from the presence of God, the everlasting portion of his people, a part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, the wrath of God to the uttermost, the second death, and a dwelling with devils and wicked men, such as himself, even a portion with hypocrites, which of all is the most dreadful and miserable, Matthew 24:51; and this is "with God", is appointed by him; for God has appointed the wicked, the vessels of wrath, fitted by their sins for destruction to the day of evil, to everlasting ruin and destruction; and it is prepared by him for them, as for the devil and his angels, and for them it is reserved among his treasures, even blackness of darkness, damnation, wrath, and vengeance:
and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty; these are such who are either oppressors of the poor in their natural and civil rights, taking from or denying to them what of right is their due; or oppressors of the saints in their religious rights and privileges, furious persecutors of them; and who, being powerful, are terrible, as the word signifies: there is an "heritage", or an inheritance for those, which is entailed upon them, and will descend unto them, as the firstborn of their father the devil, as children of disobedience, and so of wrath, and like an inheritance will endure: and this they "shall receive"; it is future, it is wrath to come, and it is certain there is no escaping it; it is their due desert, and they shall receive it; it is in the hands of the almighty God, and he will render it to them, and they shall most assuredly inherit it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This is the portion of a wicked man with God - There has been much diversity of view in regard to the remainder of this chapter. The difficulty is, that Job seems here to state the same things which had been maintained by his friends, and against which he had all along contended. This difficulty has been felt to be very great, and is very great. It cannot be denied, that there is a great resemblance between the sentiments here expressed and those which had been maintained by his friends, and that this speech, if offered by them, would have accorded entirely with their main position. Job seems to abandon all which he had defended, and to concede all which he had so warmly condemned. One mode of explaining the difficulty has been suggested in the âAnalysisâ of the chapter. It was proposed by Noyes, and is plausible, but, perhaps, will not be regarded as satisfactory to all. Dr. Kennicott supposes that the text is imperfect, and that these verses constituted the third speech of Zophar. His arguments for this opinion are:
(1) That Eliphaz and Bildad had each spoken three times, and that we are naturally led to expect a third speech from Zophar; but, according to the present arrangement, there is none.
(2) That the sentiments accord exactly with what Zophar might be expected to advance, and are exactly in his style; that they are expressed in âhis fierce manner of accusation,â and are âin the very place where Zopharâs speech is naturally expected.â
But the objections to this view are insuperable. They are:
(1) The entire lack of any authority in the manuscripts, or ancient versions, for such an arrangement or supposition. All the ancient versions and manuscripts make this a part of the speech of Job.
(2) If this had been a speech of Zophar, we should have expected a reply to it, or an allusion to it, in the speech of Job which follows. But no such reply or allusion occurs.
(3) If the form which is usual on the opening of a speech, âAnd Zophar answered and said,â had ever existed here, it is incredible that it should have been removed. But it occurs in no manuscript or version; and it is not allowable to make such an alteration in the Scripture by conjecture.
Wemyss, in his translation of Job, accords with the view of Kennicott, and makes these verses Job 27:13-23 to be the third speech of Zophar. For this, however, he alleges no authority, and no reasons except such as had been suggested by Kennicott. Coverdale, in his translation of the Bible (1553 a.d.), has inserted the word âsayingâ at the close of Job 27:12, and regards what follows to the end of the chapter as an enumeration or recapitulation of the false sentiments which they had maintained, and which Job regards as the âvainâ things Job 27:12 which they had maintained. In support of this view the following reasons may be alleged:
(1) It avoids all the difficulty of transposition, and the necessity of inserting an introduction, as we must do, if we suppose it to be a speech of Zophar.
(2) It avoids the difficulty of supposing that Job had here contradicted the sentiments which he had before advanced, or of conceding all that his friends had maintained.
(3) It is in accordance with the practice of the speakers in this book, and the usual practice of debaters, who enumerate at considerable length the sentiments which they regard as erroneous and which they design to oppose.
(4) It is the most simple and natural supposition, and, therefore, most likely to be the true one. Still, it must be admitted, that the passage is attended with difficulty; but the above solution is, it seems to me, the most plausible.
This is the portion - This is what he receives; to wit, what he states in the following verses, that his children would be cut off.
And the heritage of oppressors - What tyrants and cruel people must expect to receive at the hand of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man — Job now commences his promised teaching; and what follows is a description of the lot or portion of the wicked man and of tyrants. And this remuneration shall they have with God in general, though the hand of man be not laid upon them. Though he does not at all times show his displeasure against the wicked, by reducing them to a state of poverty and affliction, yet he often does it so that men may see it; and at other times he seems to pass them by, reserving their judgment for another world, that men may not forget that there is a day of judgment and perdition for ungodly men, and a future recompense for the righteous.
