This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Parallel translations
- WEB “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from 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 20:19–29Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- Isa 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- Job 15:20–35The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Ps 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Jas 5:4–6Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Eccl 8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
- Prov 22:22–23Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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