There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Job 20:21 belongs to Zophar's second speech describing the portion of the wicked. It declares that the wicked man's food, goods, and possessions will be gone and disappear. Its underlying general claim that evil is punished is true. It does not establish that a person's present suffering proves God's displeasure, a use to which it was wrongly put against Job. It is not a reliable description of Job himself, since the friends' accusations about him were declared untrue.
Job 20:21 belongs to Zophar's second speech describing the portion of the wicked. It declares that the wicked man's food, goods, and possessions will be gone and disappear. Its underlying general claim that evil is punished is true. It does not establish that a person's present suffering proves God's displeasure, a use to which it was wrongly put against Job. It is not a reliable description of Job himself, since the friends' accusations about him were declared untrue.