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Job 20:21

Job 20:21
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

There shall none of his meat be left,.... Not in his belly, all shall be cast up; none of his substance left for himself or others; none of his riches for his children or heirs, all being consumed: or…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

“There shall none of his meat be left Margin, “or, be none left for his meat.” Noyes renders it, “Because nothing escaped his greatness.” Prof. Lee, “no surviver shall remain for his provision.” But…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 20:10-22

The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

his goods This may mean his prosperity. In all these verses the retribution corresponds to the sin the insatiable greediness is recompensed by utter loss and want.

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