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Selected Verse: Job 20:19 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 20:19 |
Strong Concordance |
Because he hath oppressed [07533] and hath forsaken [05800] the poor [01800]; because he hath violently taken away [01497] an house [01004] which he builded [01129] not; |
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King James |
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
oppressed--whereas he ought to have espoused their cause (Ch2 16:10).
forsaken--left helpless.
house--thus leaving the poor without shelter (Isa 5:8; Mic 2:2). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Because he hath oppressed - Margin, "crushed." Such is the Hebrew.
And forsaken the poor - He has plundered them, and then forsaken them - as robbers do. The meaning is, that he had done this by his oppressive manner of dealing, and then left them to suffer and pine in want.
He hath violently taken away an house which he builded not - That is, by overreaching and harsh dealings he has come in possession of dwellings which he did not build, or purchase in any proper manner. It does not mean that he had done this by violence - for Zophar is not describing a robber, but he means that he took advantage of the needs of the poor and obtained their property. This is often done still. A rich man takes advantage of the needs of the poor, and obtains their little farm or house for much less than it is worth. He takes a mortgage, and then forecloses it, and buys the property himself for much less than its real value, and thus practices a species of the worst kind of robbery. Such a man, Zophar says, must expect punishment - and if there is any man who has occasion to dread the wrath of heaven it is he. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
He hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor - Literally, He hath broken in pieces the forsaken of the poor; כי רצץ עזב דלים ki ritstsats azab dallim. The poor have fled from famine, and left their children behind them; and this hard-hearted wretch, meaning Job all the while, has suffered them to perish, when he might have saved them alive.
He hath violently taken away a house which he builded not - Or rather, He hath thrown down a house, and hath not rebuilt it. By neglecting or destroying the forsaken orphans of the poor, mentioned above, he has destroyed a house, (a family), while he might, by helping the wretched, have preserved the family from becoming extinct. |
2 And they covet [02530] fields [07704], and take them by violence [01497]; and houses [01004], and take them away [05375]: so they oppress [06231] a man [01397] and his house [01004], even a man [0376] and his heritage [05159].
8 Woe [01945] unto them that join [05060] house [01004] to house [01004], that lay [07126] field [07704] to field [07704], till there be no [0657] place [04725], that they may be placed [03427] alone in the midst [07130] of the earth [0776]!
10 Then Asa [0609] was wroth [03707] with the seer [07200], and put [05414] him in a prison [04115] house [01004]; for he was in a rage [02197] with him because of this thing. And Asa [0609] oppressed [07533] some of the people [05971] the same time [06256].