13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
13 "Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:
13 "I'll quote your own words back to you: "'This is how God treats the wicked, this is what evil people can expect from God Almighty:
13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
13 "This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
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."
(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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:13
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?