“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Parallel translations
- KJV This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- BSB This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- NKJV “Thisis the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
- NASB ¶“This is the portion of a wicked person from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty:
- NLT “This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
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Quick answer
Job describes the portion God assigns to the wicked oppressor. It matters because Job affirms that the wicked do face God's judgment in the end.
Overview
Job begins to lay out the heritage the wicked receive from the Almighty, introducing a description of their ultimate downfall. Notably, Job here affirms much of what his friends said about the wicked's doom, though he insists it does not apply to him. By granting that the wicked are judged while maintaining his innocence, Job shows that suffering is not always proof of guilt, a truth the cross of the sinless Christ makes unmistakable.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 20:19–29For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
- Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- Job 15:20–35the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
- Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
- Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Jas 5:4–6Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- Eccl 8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.
- Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
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