{"id":7584,"date":"2023-12-15T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:57:19","slug":"job-2027-29-the-heavens-will-reveal-his-iniquity-and-the-earth-will-rise-up-against-him-the-increase-of-his-house-will-depart-and-his-goods-will-flow-away-in-the-day-of-his-wrath-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7584","title":{"rendered":"Job 20:27\u201329: “The heavens will reveal his iniquity, \/ And the earth will rise up against him. \/ The increase of his house will depart, \/ And his goods will flow away in the day of His wrath. \/ This is the portion from God for a wicked man, \/ The heritage appointed to him by God.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zophar took up his argument against Job again, claiming that God would make a sinner’s earthly life miserable. That is not absolutely true as God allows storms to come into the believer’s life as well as the unbeliever’s. But that was not the biggest problem with this counsel and comfort<\/em> from Zophar. He was again simply accusing Job of hiding some great sin, rather than trying to comfort him or help him: “This is the portion from God for a wicked man. Job, you’re just experiencing the same trials and pain that comes to every person who tries to hide his sin.”<\/p>\n

How careful we need to be of the words we speak to people in need of comfort. Why not simply admit that godly men and women also have struggles along the road of life? Why not simply agree that life is hard and sometimes even the strongest believers experience things that are too hard for them? Why not admit your own struggles in order to encourage the struggling saint sitting next to you, humbly relating some small thing God did or said that helped you. God is good and every one of us needs to be reminded of that frequently. He waits for us to let Him intervene in life’s problems.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we surrender to Your power and love today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Job 20 KJV
1<\/sup>\u00a0Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for\u00a0this\u00a0<\/em>I make haste.\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Knowest thou\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>this of old, since man was placed upon earth,\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0That the triumphing of the wicked\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>short, and the joy of the hypocrite\u00a0but\u00a0<\/em>for a moment?\u00a0\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;\u00a0\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Yet\u00a0<\/em>he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>he?\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0The eye also\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>saw him shall\u00a0see him\u00a0<\/em>no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. 10<\/sup>\u00a0His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.\u00a0\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0His bones are full\u00a0of the sin\u00a0<\/em>of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,\u00a0though\u00a0<\/em>he hide it under his tongue;\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Though\u00a0<\/em>he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0Yet\u00a0<\/em>his meat in his bowels is turned,\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>the gall of asps within him.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper\u2019s tongue shall slay him.\u00a017<\/sup>He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.\u00a0\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>down: according to\u00a0his\u00a0<\/em>substance\u00a0shall\u00a0<\/em>the restitution\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>, and he shall not rejoice\u00a0therein\u00a0<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Because he hath oppressed\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>hath forsaken the poor;\u00a0because\u00a0<\/em>he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.\u00a0\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.\u00a0\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0When\u00a0<\/em>he is about to fill his belly,\u00a0God\u00a0<\/em>shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>upon him while he is eating.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0He shall flee from the iron weapon,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>the bow of steel shall strike him through.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>upon him.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0All darkness\u00a0shall be\u00a0<\/em>hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0The increase of his house shall depart,\u00a0and his goods\u00a0<\/em>shall flow away in the day of his wrath.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zophar took up his argument against Job again, claiming that God would make a sinner’s earthly life miserable. That is not absolutely true as God allows storms to come into the believer’s life as well as the unbeliever’s. But that was not the biggest problem with this counsel and comfort from Zophar. He was again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16458,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/16458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}