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Job 27:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

This is the portion of a wicked men with God. In "this" Job includes all that follows from verse 14 to verse 23—"this, which I am going to lay down." He pointedly takes up the words of Zophar in Job 20:29, admitting their general truth.

And the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. Retribution is "their portion," "their heritage," i.e. the natural result and consequence of their precedent sin.

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