Job 20:23 When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

◄ Job 20:23 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.

English Standard Version
To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.

New American Standard Bible
"When he fills his belly, God will send His fierce anger on him And will rain it on him while he is eating.

King James Bible
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating.

International Standard Version
"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body.

American Standard Version
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

Darby Bible Translation
It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

Young's Literal Translation
It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

Cross References

Numbers 11:18
And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.

Numbers 11:33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Psalm 78:30
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

Psalm 78:31
The wrath of God came on them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Jump to Previous

Anger Belly Burning Cast Cause Desire Eating Fierce Fierceness Fill Filled Filling Fills Flesh Food Full Fury Gives Heat Making Rain Raineth Sends Vent Wrath

Jump to Next

Anger Belly Burning Cast Cause Desire Eating Fierce Fierceness Fill Filled Filling Fills Flesh Food Full Fury Gives Heat Making Rain Raineth Sends Vent Wrath

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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, Isa 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

23. Rather, "God shall cast (may God send) [Umbreit] upon him the fury of His wrath to fill his belly!"

while … eating—rather, "shall rain it upon him for his food!" Fiery rain, that is, lightning (Ps 11:6; alluding to Job's misfortune, Job 1:16). The force of the image is felt by picturing to one's self the opposite nature of a refreshing rain in the desert (Ex 16:4; Ps 68:9).