Job 20:19 meaning and explanation

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Job 20:19, Berean Standard Bible

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Zophar is the third of Job's friends to speak, and here he describes what he insists is the fixed fate of the wicked. Verse 19 gives the specific charge behind that fate: the wicked man has crushed and abandoned the poor and taken houses he did not build.

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