Job 20:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

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Cross-References

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Ecclesiastes 5:13-14
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. …
Isaiah 57:20-21
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-22)

The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Umbreit translates, “His inward parts know no rest” from desires. his belly--that is, peace inwardly. not save--literally, “not escape with that which,” &c., alluding to Job’s having been stripped of his all.