“This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.”
"This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God." Zophar's final verse returns to the schema: what he has described is the wicked person's portion, divinely appointed. This is the heritage reserved for the godless. The certainty is absolute. Chapter 20 presents retribution as inevitable process, operating regardless of the wicked person's efforts to escape.
Church Fathers on Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage of his words from the Lord. For if, while placed in this life, he had been minded to act rightly, he would have had for his ‘portion’ with the Lord fellowship in the kingdom of heaven; but because he chose to be subjected to bad desires, his ‘portion from the Lord’ he found in torment, because he did not seek to obtain a share in the grace of that Lord. But it is well said, And the heritage of his words from the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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