Job 20:6-11
1599 Geneva Bible
6 Though [a]his excellency mount up to the heaven, and his head reach unto the clouds,
7 Yet shall he perish forever like his dung, and they which have seen him, shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night.
9 So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more.
10 His children shall [b]flatter the poor, and his hands shall [c]restore his substance.
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and [d]it shall lie down with him in the dust.
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- Job 20:6 His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man, and an hypocrite, because God punished him, and changed his prosperity into adversity.
- Job 20:10 Whereas the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery, shall seek favor at the poor.
- Job 20:10 So that the thing which he hath taken away by violence shall be restored again by force.
- Job 20:11 Meaning, that he shall carry nothing away with him but his sin.
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