Job 20

Treated in 5 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 20:12 Though evil tastes sweet in their mouth and they hide it under their tongue, 2
  • 20:22 At the height of their plenty, distress will overtake them; every hand of the wretched will turn against them. 2
  • 20:3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and out of my understanding my spirit gives me a reply. 1

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites Job xx. 22

    …as your soul with earth. “In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall be in straits” (Job xx. 22). Plenty has its penury. If the globe of the world were yours, it would not fill your…

  2. The Saint and His Saviour · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Faithful Wounds cites Job xx. 3

    …kindle it.”t a Mic. ii. 18. b Ps. cii. 6, 10; lv. 4. c Ps. cvii. 18. d Ps. xxxviii. 8. e Job xx. 3, 21, 22, &c. f De Lamiis, lib. iii. c. 7. g Deut. xxviii. 65, 66. h Prov. xxix. 1. i…

  3. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Job 20:12

    …under his tongue he spares it, and forsakes it not; but keeps it still within his mouth,” Job 20:12, 13. Herein chiefly consists the straitness of the gate, and the narrowness of the way…

  4. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    The Cost cites Job xx. 12

    …he spare it, and forsake it not,” yet it must be given up, if he wishes to be saved. (Job xx. 12, 13.) He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends. Christ is willing to…

  5. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Misery by the Fall cites Job 20:22

    …can fill the sails of a ship? ‘In the midst of his sufficiency he shall be in straits.’ Job 20:22. There is still something wanting, and a man would have more; the heart is always…