the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 20:29
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This is the reward that God gives the wicked. It is the inheritance decreed by God."
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
This is the portion of [the] wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed to him by God.
This is what God plans for evil people; this is what he has decided they will receive."
Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."
This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."
"This is the wicked man's portion from God, And the heritage decreed and appointed to him by God."
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."
This is the part of a wickid man, `which part is youun of God, and the eritage of hise wordis of the Lord.
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him."
This is what God has decided for those who are evil.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.
This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
This is God's reward for the wicked, the heritage God decrees for him."
This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.
That is what God will do to those who are evil. That is what he plans to give them."
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed vnto him by God.
This is what God has for sinful men. It is what God chooses to give to them."
This is the portion of the wicked from God, the heritage decreed for them by God."
This is the portion of the wicked man fro God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his wordes.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him from the Highest.
This is the fate of wicked people, the fate that God assigns to them.
This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."
This is the portion that the wicked man shal haue of God, and the heritage that he may loke for of God, because of his wordes.
This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods appointed him by the all-seeing God.
This is the wicked person’s lot from God,the inheritance God ordained for him.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."
This is a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."
This is the evil man's portion from God, and the inheritance of his word from God.
This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.
This is the porcion that ye wicked shal haue of God, and the heretage that he maye loke for of the LORDE.
"This is a wicked person's portion from God, The inheritance decreed to him by God."
This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The heritage appointed to him by God."
"This is the wicked man's portion from God, Even the heritage decreed to him by God."
This is the wicked man's portion from God,Even the inheritance decreed to him by God."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the portion: Job 18:21, Job 27:13, Job 31:2, Job 31:3, Deuteronomy 29:20-28, Psalms 11:5, Psalms 11:6, Matthew 24:51
appointed unto him by God: Heb. of his decree from God, Lamentations 3:38
Reciprocal: Job 21:27 - I know Psalms 62:10 - Trust Isaiah 17:14 - the portion Jeremiah 13:25 - thy lot Jeremiah 43:11 - such as are for death Daniel 4:24 - the decree Luke 12:46 - and will appoint
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God,.... All before related, and which is very different from the portion of a good man, which is God himself, both here and hereafter; the wicked man has indeed his portion from God, which he has assigned him, but his portion is not himself; nor is it with him, nor with his people, but it is at most and best in this life, and but a worldly one, and hereafter will be with devils and damned spirits; and a dreadful portion it is to be banished from the presence of God to all eternity, and take up an everlasting abode with such company:
and the heritage appointed unto him by God; it is not only a portion allotted to him, but an inheritance to abide continually with him; and this by the irreversible decree and appointment of God, who has foreordained ungodly men to condemnation, and made, appointed, and reserved them to the day of wrath and destruction. Some choose to render the clause, "and the inheritance of his word or words i is unto him by God"; that is, punishment shall be inflicted upon him, and continue with him as an inheritance, because of his words, his indecent words, hard speeches and blasphemies uttered by him; referring, as it is thought, to the words which had dropped from the lips of Job.
i × ××ת ×××¨× "haereditas eloquii ejus", Pagninus, Montanus; "verborum ejus", V. L. "impie dictorum ejus", Codurcus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This is the portion of a wicked man - This conclusion is similar to that which Bildad drew at the close of his speech, Job 18:21. Zophar intended, undoubtedly, that Job should apply it to himself, and that he should draw the inference, that one who had been treated in this manner, must be a wicked man.
And the heritage appointed - Margin, âof his decree from.â The Hebrew is,â Of his wordâ (××ר×Ö¼ 'eÌmeroÌ ) - that is, of his âpurpose.â The idea is, that this is the divine rule, or arrangement. It is not a matter of chance. It is the result of appointment, and when people are afflicted in this manner, we are to conclude that âGodâ regards them as guilty. The whole object of the discussion was to arrive at the principles of the divine administration. Nothing is attributed to chance; and nothing is ascribed to second causes, except as indicating the will of God. It is assumed, that the course of events in the world was a sufficient exponent of the divine intention, and that when they understood how God âtreatedâ a man, they could clearly understand how he regarded his character. The principle is a good one, when âthe whole of existenceâ is taken into the account; the fault here was in taking in only a small part of existence - this short life - and hastening to the conclusion, that the character could be certainly determined by the manner in which God deals with people here.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:29. This is the portion — As God has dealt with the murmuring Israelites, and with the rebellious sons of Korah, so will he deal with those who murmur against the dispensations of his providence, and rebel against his authority. Instead of an earthly portion, and an ecclesiastical heritage, such as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram sought; they shall have fire from God to scorch them, and the earth to swallow them up.
Dr. Stock, bishop of Killala, who has noticed the allusion to the quails, and for which he has been most unmeritedly ridiculed, gives us the following note on the passage:-
"Here I apprehend is a fresh example of the known usage of Hebrew poets, in adorning their compositions by allusions to facts in the history of their own people. It has escaped all the interpreters; and it is the more important, because it fixes the date of this poem, so far as to prove its having been composed subsequently to the transgression of Israel, at Kibroth Hattaavah, recorded in Numbers 11:33-34. Because the wicked acknowledges not the quail, that is, the meat with which God has filled his stomach; but, like the ungrateful Israelites, crammed, and blasphemed his feeder, as Milton finely expresses it, he shall experience the same punishment with them, and be cut off in the midst of his enjoyment, as Moses tells us the people were who lusted."
If I mistake not, I have added considerable strength to the prelate's reasoning, by showing that there is a reference also to the history of the manna, and to that which details the rebellion of Korah and his company; and if so, (and they may dispute who please,) it is a proof that the Book of Job is not so old as, much less older than, the Pentateuch, as some have endeavoured to prove, but with no evidence of success, at least to my mind: a point which never has been, and I am certain never can be, proved; which has multitudes of presumptions against it, and not one clear incontestable fact for it. Mr. Good has done more in this case than any of his predecessors, and yet Mr. Good has failed; no wonder then that others, unmerciful criticisers of the bishop of Killala, have failed also, who had not a tenth part of Mr. Good's learning, nor one-hundredth part of his critical acumen.
It is, however, strange that men cannot suffer others to differ from them on a subject of confessed difficulty and comparatively little importance, without raising up the cry of heresy against them, and treating them with superciliousness and contempt! These should know, if they are clergymen, whether dignified or not, that such conduct ill becomes the sacerdotal character; and that ante barbam docet senes cannot be always spoken to the teacher's advantage.
As a good story is not the worse for being twice told, the following lines from a clergyman, who, for his humility and piety, was as much an honour to his vocation as he was to human nature, may not be amiss, in point of advice to all Warburtonian spirits: -
"Be calm in arguing, for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Why should I feel another man's mistakes
More than his sickness or his poverty?
In love I should: but anger is not love
Nor wisdom neither; therefore, gently move.
Calmness is great advantage: he that lets
Another chafe, may warm him at his fire,
Mark all his wanderings, and enjoy his frets;
As cunning fencers suffer heat to tire.
Truth dwells not in the clouds: the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit, the sphere."
HERBERT.
Dr. Stock's work on the Book of Job will stand honourably on the same shelf with the best on this difficult subject.
