“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 20 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.