🌪️WEB · Job 21:20

What does Job 21:20 mean?

"Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty."

— Job 21:20 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

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How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

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“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

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One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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