The Meaning of Job 20:19 Explained

Job 20:19

KJV: Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

YLT: For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Darby: For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.

ASV: For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Discover Job 20:19

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 20:19?

MEANING: What does Job 20:19 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 20:19 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 20:19?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Because he hath oppressed  [and] hath forsaken  the poor;  [because] he hath violently taken away  an house  which he builded  not; 

What does Job 20:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 20:1-29 - "the Triumphing Of The Wicked"
Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29, has vexed him, so that he speaks with impatience.
The theme of Zophar's speech is the brevity of the prosperity of the wicked. He claims that this is an acknowledged principle, Job 20:4; then proceeds to show it by many striking metaphors.
Hypocrite, Job 20:5, is "godless" in the r.v.; and in describing the prosperity and speedy destruction of such, Job 20:5-11, he manifestly applies his words to Job. He refuses to pay any heed to Job's protestations of innocence. His theology was: God is righteous; he blesses and prospers the good, and destroys the wicked. Job was being destroyed; therefore Job was wicked. Thus often do we in our ignorance misunderstand God and cruelly misjudge man.
Zophar descends to more particulars. He describes the pleasure which the ungodly has in sin, Job 20:12-13; how his sin becomes his punishment, Job 20:14-22; and how terrible destruction at last visits him, Job 20:23-28, as his portion from God, Job 20:29. Though in all this Zophar was wrong in applying it to Job's case, and equally wrong in supposing that this life is the place of judgment for the wicked, yet it is important to remember that he was right in seeing a very real connection between sin and punishment. However sweet sin may be to the taste, it is sure to become bitter as the gall of asps ere long. The "pleasures of sin" are but for a season. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 20

1  Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 20:19 mean?

For he has oppressed [and] forsaken the poor a house he has violently seized and not which He did build
כִּֽי־ רִ֭צַּץ עָזַ֣ב דַּלִּ֑ים בַּ֥יִת גָּ֝זַ֗ל וְלֹ֣א יִבֶנֵֽהוּ

רִ֭צַּץ  he  has  oppressed 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: רָצַץ  
Sense: to crush, oppress.
עָזַ֣ב  [and]  forsaken 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָזַב 
Sense: to leave, loose, forsake.
דַּלִּ֑ים  the  poor 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural construct
Root: דַּל  
Sense: low, poor, weak, thin, one who is low.
בַּ֥יִת  a  house 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
גָּ֝זַ֗ל  he  has  violently  seized 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: גָּזַל  
Sense: to tear away, seize, plunder, tear off, pull off, rob, take away by force.
וְלֹ֣א  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יִבֶנֵֽהוּ  which  He  did  build 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.

What are the major concepts related to Job 20:19?

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