Job 20:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.

New Living Translation
For they oppressed the poor and left them destitute. They foreclosed on their homes.

English Standard Version
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.

Berean Study Bible
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

New American Standard Bible
“For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.

NASB 1995
"For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.

NASB 1977
“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.

Amplified Bible
“For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has violently taken away houses which he did not build.

Christian Standard Bible
For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.

Contemporary English Version
because they cheated the poor and took their homes.

Good News Translation
because they oppressed and neglected the poor and seized houses someone else had built.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because he crushed and abandoned the poor. He has taken by force a house that he didn't build.

International Standard Version
because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

NET Bible
For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

New King James Version
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor, He has violently seized a house which he did not build.

King James 2000 Bible
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;

New Heart English Bible
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

World English Bible
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

American King James Version
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;

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

A Faithful Version
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; and has violently seized a house which he did not build.

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

English Revised Version
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, "" He has taken a house away violently, "" And he does not build it.

Young's Literal Translation
For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Smith's Literal Translation
For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
For he thought to forsake the poor, and a house of violence will not be built up

Lamsa Bible
Because he has thought to forsake the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.
















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