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Contemporary English Version

Job 21:20

Let God All-Powerful force them to drink their own destruction from the cup of his anger.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Cup;   Wrath;   Wrath-Anger;   The Topic Concordance - Wickedness;   Wrath;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let his own eyes see his demise;let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!
Hebrew Names Version
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
King James Version
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
English Standard Version
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
New Century Version
Their eyes should see their own destruction, and they should suffer the anger of the Almighty.
New English Translation
Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
Amplified Bible
"Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
New American Standard Bible
"Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
World English Bible
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let his own eyes see his decay,And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Berean Standard Bible
Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let their own eyes see their own destruction and themselves drink the wrath of Shaddai.
Darby Translation
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
Easy-to-Read Version
Let them see their own punishment. Let them feel the anger of God All-Powerful.
George Lamsa Translation
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Good News Translation
Let sinners bear their own punishment; let them feel the wrath of Almighty God.
Lexham English Bible
Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
Literal Translation
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their owne destruccion and misery shal they se with their eyes, and drynke of the fearfull wrath of the Allmighty.
American Standard Version
Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Bible in Basic English
Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
King James Version (1611)
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
English Revised Version
Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise iyen schulen se her sleyng; and he schal drynke of the stronge veniaunce of Almyyti God.
Update Bible Version
Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Webster's Bible Translation
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
New King James Version
Let his eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
New Living Translation
Let them see their destruction with their own eyes. Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
New Life Bible
Let his own eyes see himself being destroyed. Let him drink the anger of the All-powerful.
New Revised Standard
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.
Douay-Rheims Bible
His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Revised Standard Version
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Young's Literal Translation
His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let his own eyes see his decay, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Contextual Overview

17 How often does God become angry and send disaster and darkness to punish sinners? 18 How often does he strike them like a windstorm that scatters straw? 19 You say, "God will punish those sinners' children in place of those sinners." But I say, "Let him punish those sinners themselves until they really feel it. 20 Let God All-Powerful force them to drink their own destruction from the cup of his anger. 21 Because after they are dead, they won't care what happens to their children." 22 Who can tell God what to do? He judges powerful rulers. 23 Some of us die prosperous, 24 enjoying good health, 25 while others die in poverty, having known only pain. 26 But we all end up dead, beneath a blanket of worms.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

see: Job 27:19, Luke 16:23

drink: Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:15, Jeremiah 25:16, Jeremiah 51:7, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 19:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 18:4 - the fleece Job 8:3 - Almighty Job 31:23 - destruction Psalms 110:7 - He shall Isaiah 9:9 - And all Isaiah 63:6 - make

Cross-References

Genesis 16:12
But your son will live far from his relatives; he will be like a wild donkey, fighting everyone, and everyone fighting him."
Genesis 17:20
I have heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael, and so I will also bless him with many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make his family a great nation.
Genesis 21:2
Although Abraham was very old, Sarah had a son exactly at the time God had said.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham named his son Isaac,
Genesis 21:23
Now I want you to promise in the name of God that you will always be loyal to me and my descendants, just as I have always been loyal to you in this land where you have lived as a foreigner."
Genesis 21:24
And so, Abraham promised.
Genesis 21:25
One day, Abraham told Abimelech, "Some of your servants have taken over one of my wells."
Genesis 25:27
As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob settled down and became a shepherd.
Genesis 27:3
So take your bow and arrows, then go out in the fields, and kill a wild animal.
Genesis 28:15
Wherever you go, I will watch over you, then later I will bring you back to this land. I won't leave you—I will do all I have promised.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His eyes shall see his destruction,.... Or "should see his destruction" b; calamities coming upon himself and upon his children; or otherwise it will not affect him: but when a man has a personal experience of affliction as punishments of his sin, or with his own eyes sees his children in distressed circumstances on his account, this must sensibly affect him, and be a sore punishment to him; as it was to Zedekiah to have his children slain before his eyes, Jeremiah 52:10;

and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty; or "he should drink" c of it now, according to the principles of Job's friends, even he in person, and not his posterity only; the wrath of God is on account of sin, and dreadful to bear: if the wrath of a temporal king is as the roaring of a lion, what must be the wrath of the Almighty God, the King of kings, and Lord of lords? this is frequently in Scripture compared to a cup, and is called a cup of trembling, of wrath and fury: and of which all the wicked of the earth shall drink sooner or later,

Psalms 75:8; but this they should do now, according to the notions of Job's friends, whereas they do not; waters of a full cup, though not in wrath indeed, are wrung out to the people of God, and, as they apprehend, in wrath, when the wicked drink wine in bowls, and the cup of their prosperity overflows.

b יראו עינו כריו "videret ejus oculi exitium suum", Beza, Cocceius. c ישתה "biberet", Beza, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His eyes shall see his destruction - That is, his own eyes shall see his destruction, or the calamities that shall come upon him. That is, “You maintain that, or this is the position which you defend.” Job designs to meet this, and to show that it is not always so.

And he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty - Wrath is often represented as a cup which the wicked are compelled to drink. See the notes, Isaiah 51:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:20. His eyes shall see his destruction — He shall perceive its approach, and have the double punishment of fearing and feeling; feeling a THOUSAND deaths in fearing ONE.

He shall drink of the wrath — The cup of God's wrath, the cup of trembling, c., is frequently expressed or referred to in the sacred writings, Deuteronomy 32:33 Isaiah 51:17-22; Jeremiah 25:15; Revelation 14:8. It appears to be a metaphor taken from those cups of poison which certain criminals were obliged to drink. A cup of the juice of hemlock was the wrath or punishment assigned by the Athenian magistrates to the philosopher Socrates.


 
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