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Job 20:29 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.” "
Job 20:29
Verse in Context
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27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.
28 The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
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Job 20:1
"Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,"
Job 20:2
"“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me."
Job 20:3
"I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me."
Job 20:4
"Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,"
Job 20:5
"that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?"
Job 20:6
"Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,"
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