Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.
New American Standard Bible
He has seized a house which he has not built.
King James Version
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Holman Bible
he seized a house he did not build.
International Standard Version
because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.
A Conservative Version
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
American Standard Version
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Amplified
“For he has oppressed and neglected the poor;
He has violently taken away houses which he did not build.
Bible in Basic English
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Darby Translation
For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
King James 2000
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;
Lexham Expanded Bible
for he has oppressed; he has abandoned [the] poor; he has seized a house but did not build it.
Modern King James verseion
For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them.
NET Bible
For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
New Heart English Bible
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
The Emphasized Bible
For he hath oppressed - hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.
Webster
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
World English Bible
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Youngs Literal Translation
For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:19
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Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
18 Turning back the labor, and he shall not swallow down: according to the substance of his exchange and he shall not exult 19 For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up. 20 For he knew not tranquillity in his belly, in his desire he shall not escape.
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Job 35:9
From the multitude of oppressions they will cry out: they will cry out from the arm of the many.
Proverbs 14:31
He oppressing the poor reproached him making him: and he honoring him compassionated the needy.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land and all thy labors, a people which thou knewest not shall eat: and thou wert only oppressed and broken all the days.
1 Samuel 12:3-4
Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you.
1 Kings 21:19
And speak to him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Didst thou kill and also possess? And speak to him, saying, said Jehovah, In the place which the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick thy blood, also thine.
Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tent, from not to him: brimstone shall be scattered upon his dwelling.
Job 21:27-28
Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me.
Job 22:6
For thou wilt take a pledge of thy brethren, in vain, and the garments of the naked thou wilt strip of
Job 24:2-12
They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed.
Job 31:13-22
If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me;
Job 31:38-39
If my land shall cry against me, and its, furrows shall weep together;
Psalm 10:18
To judge the orphan and the dejected, that the man of the earth shall no more add to make afraid.
Psalm 12:5
From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.
Proverbs 22:22-23
Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.
Isaiah 5:7-8
For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.
Lamentations 3:34
To crush under his feet all the bound of the earth,
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land oppressed with violence and stripped off robbery, and oppressed the poor and needy, and did violence to the stranger without judgment
Amos 4:1-3
Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.
Micah 2:2
And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:9
The women of my people ye will thrust out from the house of her delights; from her children ye will take my majesty forever.
James 2:6
And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?
James 2:13
For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.