Job 27:13
Good News Translation
This is how Almighty God punishes wicked, violent people.

New Revised Standard Version
“This is the portion of the wicked with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:

Contemporary English Version
Here is how God All-Powerful treats those who are wicked and brutal.

New American Bible
This is the portion of the wicked with God, the heritage oppressors receive from the Almighty:

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the portion

Job 20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

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

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

the heritage

Job 15:20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

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Job 20:19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

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Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Proverbs 22:22,23 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate: . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 5:4-6 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. . . .

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause? 13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.…
Cross References
Job 15:20
The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.

Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

Job 27:12
Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

Job 27:12
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