Job 20:23 Parallel Translations

Let that misery fill his belly. God throws his burning anger at the godless person and makes his wrath come down on him like rain.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

ASV:

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

BBE:

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

DBY:

It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

ERV:

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

JPS:

It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.

WBS:

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

WEB:

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

YLT:

It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

Job 20:23 Cross References

XREF:

Numbers 11:18 "Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat and you shall eat.

Numbers 11:33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.

Job 20:13 Though he desires it and will not let it go, But holds it in his mouth,

Job 20:14 Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.

Psalm 78:30 Before they had satisfied their desire, While their food was in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31 The anger of God rose against them And killed some of their stoutest ones, And subdued the choice men of Israel. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

20:23 [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, {m} and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
(m) Some read, upon his flesh, alluding to Job, whose flesh was smitten with a scab.

WES:

20:23 Rain - This phrase denotes both the author of his plagues, God, and the nature and quality of them, that they shall come upon him like rain; with great vehemency, so that he cannot prevent or avoid it. Eating - As it fell upon thy sons.

MHC:

20:23-29 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, Isa 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.

CONC:

Anger Belly Blows Burning Cast Cause Desire Eating Fierce Fierceness Fill Filling Fills Flesh Forth Full Fury Gives Heat Making Pass Rain Raineth Sends Vent Wrath Yea

Anger Belly Burning Cast Cause Desire Eating Fierce Fierceness Fill Filled Filling Fills Flesh Food Full Fury Gives Heat Making Rain Raineth Sends Vent Wrath

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