The Pulpit Commentary on Job 20:29

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This is the portion of a wicked man from God; i.e. the lot, or possession of a wicked man?봳hat which God makes over to him as his own in the last resort, and which is all that he has to look for. In other words, it is the heritage appointed unto him by God (comp. Job 27:13). As to some God, at the last, will assign an inheritance of good, so to others he will appoint an inheritance of evil

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