Job 20:23
Good News Translation
Let them eat all they want! God will punish them in fury and anger.

New Revised Standard Version
To fill their belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into them, and rain it upon them as their food.

Contemporary English Version
and God will make them swallow his blazing anger.

New American Bible
When he has filled his belly, God shall send against him the fury of his wrath and rain down his missiles upon him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

he is about

Numbers 11:33 As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Psalm 78:30,31 they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: . . .

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

Luke 12:17-20 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? . . .

rain it

Genesis 19:24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 78:30,31 they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: . . .

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. 23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.…
Cross References
Numbers 11:18
And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow you shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh to eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh, and you may eat:

Numbers 11:33
As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Job 20:13
He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

Job 20:14
His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

Psalm 78:30
they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

Psalm 78:31
And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

Amos 8:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

Job 20:22
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