Job 20:20

20 nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit

Job 20:20 Meaning and Commentary

Job 20:20

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly
Or happiness in his children, so some in Bar Tzemach; rather shall have no satisfaction in his substance; though his belly is filled with hid treasure, it shall give him no contentment; he shall be a stranger to that divine art, but ever have a restless craving after more, which is his sin; but rather punishment is here meant, and the sense is, that he shall have no quiet in his conscience, no peace of mind, because of his sin in getting riches in an unlawful way:

he shall not save of that which he desired;
of his desirable things, his goods, his wealth, his riches, and even his children, all being gone, and none saved; respect may be had particularly to Job's case, who was stripped of everything, of all his substance and his children.

Job 20:20 In-Context

18 luet quae fecit omnia nec tamen consumetur iuxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum sic et sustinebit
19 quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes domum rapuit et non aedificavit eam
20 nec est satiatus venter eius et cum habuerit quae cupierat possidere non poterit
21 non remansit de cibo eius et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis eius
22 cum satiatus fuerit artabitur aestuabit et omnis dolor inruet in eum
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