Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 20:5, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Psalms 73:18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
- Job 8:12
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
- Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Matthew 13:20
But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
- Acts 12:22
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
- Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
- Galatians 6:4
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
- Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall des…
- Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.