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Job 20

Job 20:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Because he hath σoppressed
ratsats (Hebrew #7533)
to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively
KJV usage: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.
Pronounce: raw-tsats'
Origin: a primitive root
and hath forsaken
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
the poor
dal (Hebrew #1800)
properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin
KJV usage: lean, needy, poor (man), weaker.
Pronounce: dal
Origin: from 1809
; because he hath violently taken away
gazal (Hebrew #1497)
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
KJV usage: catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.
Pronounce: gaw-zal'
Origin: a primitive root
an house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
which he builded
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
not;
σ
crushed.

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Job 21:27‑28• 27Lo! I know your thoughts,{HR}And the plots ye do violently against me.
28For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince?{HR}And where the tent of the habitations of the wicked?
(Job 21:27‑28)
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Job 22:6• 6For thou distrainedst thy brother without cause,{HR}And didst strip off the clothes of the naked; (Job 22:6)
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Job 24:2‑12• 2They remove landmarks; they rob flocks, and feed;
3They drive the ass of the orphan,{HR}They distrain the ox of the widow;
4They thrust the needy out of the way,{HR}The poor of the land must hide together.
5Behold, wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth,{HR}Early about their work, after prey;{HR}The desert [is] to him bread for the little ones;
6In the field they reap his cattle-fodder,{HR}And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
7They make the naked lodge without clothing,{HR}And without covering in the cold.
8With the rain of mountains they are drenched,{HR}And, shelterless, they embrace a rock.
9They pluck the orphan from the breast,{HR}And on the poor lay distraint.
10Naked they go without clothing,{HR}And hungry they bear the sheaf,
11They make oil within their walls,{HR}They tread wine-vats and they thirst.
12Out of the city mortals groan,{HR}And the soul of the wounded crieth out;{HR}Yet God regardeth not the folly!
(Job 24:2‑12)
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Job 31:13‑22,38‑39• 13If I despised the right of my bondman{HR}Or of my bondmaid, in their contending with me,
14What then shall I do when God [El] ariseth?{HR}And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15In the belly did not he that made me make him?{HR}And did not One fashion us in the womb?
16If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine,
17Or ate my morsel by myself,{HR}And the orphan had not eaten of it
18(For from my path I brought him up as a father,{HR}And her I guided from my mother’s womb);
19If I saw [any] perishing without clothing,{HR}And the needy without covering;
20If his loins blessed me not,{HR}And he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate;
22Let my shoulder fall from the blade,{HR}And mine arm be broken from the bone.
38If my land cry out against me,{HR}And its furrows weep together,
39If its strength I consumed without wrong,{HR}And caused the soul of its owners to expire,
(Job 31:13‑22,38‑39)
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Job 35:9• 9Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out,{HR}They cry because of the arm of the mighty. (Job 35:9)
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1 Sam. 12:3‑4• 3Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.
4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, and thou hast not injured us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
(1 Sam. 12:3‑4)
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Psa. 10:18• 18To judge the orphan and the oppressed:{HR}He shall continue no more to terrify man from the earth. (Psa. 10:18)
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Psa. 12:5• 5Because of the oppression of the afflicted,{HR}Because of the groaning of the needy,{HR}Now will I arise, saith Jehovah;{HR}I will place in safety [from] him that puffeth at him. (Psa. 12:5)
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Prov. 14:31• 31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;{HR}But he that honoureth Him is merciful to the needy. (Prov. 14:31)
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Prov. 22:22‑23• 22Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
23For Jehovah will plead their cause,{HR}And despoil the soul of those that despoil them.
(Prov. 22:22‑23)
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Eccl. 4:1• 1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions{HR}That are done under the sun:{HR}And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed,{HR}And they had no comforter;{HR}And on the side of their oppressors there was power,{HR}But they had no comforter. (Eccl. 4:1)
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Eccl. 5:8• 8If thou seest the oppression of the poor,{HR}And the violent taking away of judgment{HR}And justice in a province,{HR}Marvel not at the matter:{HR}For one higher than the high regardeth;{HR}And there are higher than they. (Eccl. 5:8)
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Ezek. 22:29• 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:29)
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Amos 4:1‑3• 1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith Jehovah.
(Amos 4:1‑3)
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James 2:6,13• 6But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before tribunals?
13for the judgment [is] merciless to him that showed no mercy. Mercy glorieth over judgment.
(James 2:6,13)
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James 5:4• 4Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:4)
oppressed.
Heb. crushed.
he hath violently.
 The unfinished house he took remains as a monument of his crime. (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)
 Much that he hints at here is directly charged by Eliphaz against Job. The friends thus strengthen one an-other in their determination to establish their theory that Job is the wicked hypocrite they depict, suffering for his own misdeeds. (Job 3-31 by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken awaya a house that he did not build.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "he pillaged."

W. Kelly Translation

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For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;