Job 20:29
Good News Translation
This is the fate of wicked people, the fate that God assigns to them.

New Revised Standard Version
This is the portion of the wicked from God, the heritage decreed for them by God.”

Contemporary English Version
This is what God has decided for those who are evil.

New American Bible
This is the portion of the wicked, the heritage appointed him by God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

the portion

Job 18:21 These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.

Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Job 31:2,3 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? . . .

Deuteronomy 29:20-28 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven, . . .

Psalm 11:5,6 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men. . . .

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

appointed unto him by God.

Lamentations 3:38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath. 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.
Cross References
Job 21:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Job 21:30
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Job 31:2
For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

Job 20:28
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