Job 27:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

The portion

The heritage

General references

Job 31:2

Bible References

The portion

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

The heritage

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

General references

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?