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Job 20:10-12
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 20:10-12
1599 Geneva Bible
10 His children shall [a]flatter the poor, and his hands shall [b]restore his substance.
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and [c]it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 When wickedness was [d]sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue,
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- Job 20:10 Whereas the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor, the children through poverty and misery, shall seek favor at the poor.
- Job 20:10 So that the thing which he hath taken away by violence shall be restored again by force.
- Job 20:11 Meaning, that he shall carry nothing away with him but his sin.
- Job 20:12 As poison that is sweet in the mouth, bringeth destruction when it cometh into the body: so all vice at the first is pleasant, but afterward God turneth it to destruction.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
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