What Does Job 20:28 Mean in the King James?
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The house’s increase does not merely shrink; Hebrew pictures it going into exile, driven from its place.
THE MEANING
What gathers under your roof can feel secure because it is yours, yet this verse shows its increase being carried out and poured away. The day of wrath is pictured as the moment stored abundance loses its place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this overturns is that a full house proves lasting security; its increase can still be carried away in a day.
THE ROOT
יִגֶל
yigel
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover or remove; in this form, to go into exile or be carried away.
“shall depart” in this verse is yigel. The verb comes from גלה, whose range includes both uncovering and going into exile. The household’s produce is pictured not merely as reduced, but as displaced from its place and exposed as unable to stay.
ALSO GROWS
galah: To uncover; to go into exile or be removed.
גָּלָה
The same verb holds exposure and displacement together, echoing the loss of the house’s increase.
higlah: He exiled or carried away.
הִגְלָה
This form makes the removal explicit: what is inside the house can be carried out of its place.
niglah: Was uncovered or revealed.
נִגְלָה
This form brings out the root’s other shade: when what is held is removed, the security beneath it is exposed.
THE PATTERN
Wealth gathered into a household can leave swiftly, exposing the limits of possession.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?THE THREAD
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.The Hebrew root גלה appears in both passages: Job pictures a house’s produce going into exile, while Isaiah uses it for people carried into captivity. The root makes the loss in Job feel like a household itself being emptied and displaced.
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