Job 20:28

_THE INCREASE OF HIS HOUSE SHALL DEPART, AND HIS GOODS SHALL FLOW AWAY IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH._ Increase - prosperity. Ill gotten-ill gone. FLOW AWAY - like waters that run dry in summer; using Job's own metaphor against himself (Job 6:15; 2 Samuel 14:14; Micah 1:4). HIS WRATH - God's....

23-29 Zophar, having described the vexations which attend wicked practices, shows their ruin from God's wrath. There is no fence against this, but in Christ, who is the only Covert from the storm and tempest, Isaiah 32:2. Zophar concludes, "This is the portion of a wicked man from God;" it is allotted him. Never was any doctrine better explained, or worse applied, than this by Zophar, who intended to prove Job a hypocrite. Let us receive the good explanation, and make a better application, for warning to ourselves, to stand in awe and sin not. One view of Jesus, directed by the Holy Spirit, and by him suitably impressed upon our souls, will quell a thousand carnal reasonings about the suffering of the faithful....

Verse Job 20:28. _THE INCREASE OF HIS HOUSE SHALL DEPART_, AND HIS GOODS _SHALL FLOW AWAY IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH._] A farther allusion to the punishment of the rebellious company of Korah, who not only perished _themselves_, but their _houses_ also, and their _goods_. Numbers 16:32. These examples were all in point, on the ground assumed by Zophar; and such well-attested facts would not be passed over by him, had he known the record of them; and that he did know it, alludes to it, and quotes the very circumstances, is more than probable....

THE INCREASE OF HIS HOUSE SHALL DEPART - Septuagint, “Destruction shall bring his house to an end.” The word rendered “depart” (יגל _yı̂gel_ from גלה _gâlâh_), means, properly, “shall go into captivity.” The sense is, that whatever he had laid up in his house would entirely disappear. HIS GOODS SHALL FLOW AWAY - What he had gained would seem to flow away like water. IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH - The wrath of God - for so the connection demands....

EXPOSITION JOB 20:1 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first (Job 11:1.). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility (Job 20:7, Job 20:15). His whole discourse is a covert denunciation of Job as a wicked man and a hypocrite (verses 5, 12, 19, 29), deservedly punished by God for a life of crime. He ends by prophesying Job's violent death, the destruction of his house, and the rising up of heaven and earth in witness against him (verses 24-28). JOB 20:1,...

THE INCREASE OF HIS HOUSE SHALL DEPART,.... Either his children or his substance. Some interpret it, as Kimchi h observes, of the walls of his house, because of what follows, "they shall flow away", c. as if he should say, the stones of his house shall fall down, and his habitation shall be destroyed, according to Micah 1:6 where a dilapidation is expressed by a flow, or pouring down of stones: [AND HIS GOODS] SHALL FLOW AWAY IN THE DAY OF HIS WRATH; in the day of the wrath of God upon him, which will come upon him like water split on the ground, of no more use and service to him; the Targum interprets it of oil and wine, which shall flow away and cease, and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "fruits for his house"; all desirable and useful ones, see Revelation 18:14....

CHAPTER 20 THE SECOND ADDRESS OF ZOPHAR _ 1. Zophar's swift reply (Job 20:1)_ 2. Another description of the life and fate of the wicked (Job 20:4) Job 20:1. Zophar, the twitterer, begins his reply to Job with impatient haste. Job's words, probably those found in chapter 19:2-3, and the last two verses, have made him angry. He boils over with indignation. He is ready now to confirm the testimony already given and wound the suffering servant of God still more. Job 20:4. He follows the same path and there is again nothing new in his argument. The description of the wicked is great; no fault can be found with what he says about those who

JOB 20. SECOND SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin brings its own reward. JOB 20:1. Zophar replies to Job's exasperating words (Job 19:1). In Job 20:2 b _mg._ is probably to be followed. In Job 20:3 b Duhm, on the basis of LXX, reads, and with wind void of understanding thou answerest me. JOB 20:4. The portion of the wicked. How short is his joy, how utter his destruction! In...

FLOW AWAY. melt away, disappear....

His insatiable greed shall be satisfied at last. God shall fill him full of his judgments....