The Meaning of Job 20:28 Explained

Job 20:28

KJV: The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

YLT: Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

Darby: The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

ASV: The increase of his house shall depart; His goods'shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

Discover Job 20:28

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 20:28?

MEANING: What does Job 20:28 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 20:28 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 20:28?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The increase  of his house  shall depart,  [and his goods] shall flow away  in the day  of his wrath. 

What does Job 20:28 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 20:28 mean?

Will depart the increase of his house [And his goods] will flow away in the day of His wrath
יִ֭גֶל יְב֣וּל בֵּית֑וֹ נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת בְּי֣וֹם אַפּֽוֹ

יִ֭גֶל  Will  depart 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular
Root: גָּלָה  
Sense: to uncover, remove.
יְב֣וּל  the  increase 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: יְבוּל  
Sense: produce, fruit, produce (of the soil).
בֵּית֑וֹ  of  his  house 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
נִ֝גָּר֗וֹת  [And  his  goods]  will  flow  away 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Participle, feminine plural
Root: נָגַר 
Sense: to pour, run, flow, pour down.
בְּי֣וֹם  in  the  day 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
אַפּֽוֹ  of  His  wrath 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.

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