Job 20:1-29

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:16

That which he hath greedily and industriously sucked in as pleasant and wholesome nourishment, shall in the issue be as ungrateful and destructive to him as the poison or head (for the Hebrew word signifies both, and the poison lies in the head) of asps would be to one that sucketh it. The viper’s tongue, together with its teeth, in which the poison lurks, which it conveys by biting a man. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:17

Not see, i.e. not enjoy, as that word is oft used as Psalms 106:5; Ecclesiastes 2:1. The brooks of honey and butter; that abundant satisfaction and comfort, (oft signified by these or suchlike metaphors; as Psalms 36:8; Psalms 46:4; Isaiah 7:15,Isaiah 7:22; Isaiah 41:18) either which he promised to himself from that great estate which he had got by deceit and oppression, or which good men through God’s blessing may and commonly do enjoy. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:18

That which he laboured for, Heb. labour, i.e. the goods which were gotten with labour; either, 1. By the labour of others; or rather, 2. By his own labour; which may relate as well to the goods of others, which he got not without pains and difficulty; or to his own goods honestly gotten by the sweat of his brows. And this is an aggravation of his misery, that he was forced to restore not only other men’s goods which were in his hands, but his own also, to make reparation for their damages.... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:19

By his oppression he brought men to utter poverty, and then forsook or left them in that forlorn estate, affording no mercy nor help to them. Or, some he made poor by his oppression, and others that were poor he suffered to perish for want of that relief which he should and might have afforded them; which is a crying sin in God’s sight, and one of those sins for which God destroyed Sodom, Ezekiel 16:49, and therefore fitly mentioned here as one of the sins for which God punished this wicked... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:20

He shall not feel quietness in his belly, i.e. he shall have no peace nor satisfaction in his mind in all his gains, partly because of his perpetual fears and expectations of the wrath of God and man, which his guilty conscience knoweth that he deserves; and partly because they shall be speedily taken away from him. He still continueth the metaphor of a glutton, whose belly is not quiet until it hath vomited up that wherewith he had oppressed it. Of that which he desired, i.e. any part of his... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:21

None of his meat be left for his own future use; but he shall be stripped of all. Therefore shall no man look for his goods; it being publicly known and observed that he was totally ruined, none of his kindred or friends shall trouble themselves to seek for any relics of his estate, as is usually done after men’s deaths. But this verse is and may be rendered otherwise, There shall none be left for his meat, (i.e. he shall leave no heir who shall possess or enjoy his goods,) because, (for so the... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:22

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; i.e. the height of prosperity and abundance he shall be distressed and tormented, either by the horrors of an unquiet mind and guilty conscience, which makes him every moment expect Divine vengeance to fall upon his head; or rather, because of the sudden and unexpected assault of other men combining against him, and spoiling all his goods, as it follows. Every hand of the wicked, who lives by injury and the spoiling of others, and by... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:23

When he is about to fill his belly, i.e. when he hath enough and abundance to satisfy all his appetites, and shall design to take the pleasure of all his gains, and to spend his days in epicurism and sensuality. God; who is oft understood in this book where he is not expressed; and so he is here, as appears from the following words, because there is no other person here expressed who was to inflict these evils upon him, and because they, are said to be rained down upon him; which implies their... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:24

From the iron weapon, i.e. from the sword or spear; and so shall think himself out of danger. The bow; an arrow shot out of a bow. A distant, place and unknown hand shall unexpectedly fall upon him; so that he shall only go from one danger to another. Of steel; which is of great strength, and therefore sendeth forth the arrow with greater force. Compare Psalms 18:34. Or, of brass, as the word properly signifies; which the ancients did so temper and harden, that their bows were commonly made of... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 20:25

It is drawn; either, 1. A sword, which may be understood out of this Hebrew verb, which is for the most part used of that weapon, as Numbers 22:23,Numbers 22:31; Judges 8:20, &c., and out of the following branch of the verse. Or, 2. The arrow last mentioned, which had entered into his body, and now was drawn out of it either by himself, or by some other person, as is frequent in that case, if peradventure he might be cured. Out of the body; or, out of his body, i.e. the body of the wounded... read more

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