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Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Job 20:19 · World English Bible
Job 20:19 in other translations
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
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In context
16 He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
17 He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
20 “Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
21 There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
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