Job 20
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 20, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job 20:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}
Job 20:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 20:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Knowest thou {not} this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job 20:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}
Job 20:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; {clouds: Heb. cloud}
Job 20:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Yet} he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where {is} he?
Job 20:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job 20:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. {His children...: or, The poor shall oppress his children}
Job 20:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His bones are full {of the sin} of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 20:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, {though} he hide it under his tongue;
Job 20:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Though} he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: {within...: Heb. in the midst of his palate}
Job 20:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Yet} his meat in his bowels is turned, {it is} the gall of asps within him.
Job 20:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job 20:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. {the floods...: or, streaming brooks}
Job 20:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow {it} down: according to {his} substance {shall} the restitution {be}, and he shall not rejoice {therein}. {his...: Heb. the substance of his exchange}
Job 20:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because he hath oppressed {and} hath forsaken the poor; {because} he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {oppressed: Heb. crushed}
Job 20:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. {feel: Heb. know}
Job 20:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. {none...: or, be none left for his meat}
Job 20:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. {wicked: or, troublesome}
Job 20:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{When} he is about to fill his belly, {God} shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain {it} upon him while he is eating.
Job 20:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, {and} the bow of steel shall strike him through.
Job 20:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors {are} upon him.
Job 20:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All darkness {shall be} hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Job 20:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job 20:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The increase of his house shall depart, {and his goods} shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 20:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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This {is} the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. {appointed...: Heb. of his decree from God}
Job 20:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.