29 Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God."
29 This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."
29 There! That's God's blueprint for the wicked - what they have to look forward to."
29 This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The heritage appointed to him by God."
29 This is the reward that God gives the wicked. It is the inheritance decreed by God."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 20:29
Commentary on Job 20:23-29
(Read Job 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, Isaiah 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.